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Experienced SWE here. ChatGPT is awesome for me. It's great for learning new technologies and it's great for writing programs that I'm too lazy to write myself.
by insanitybit 3y ago
Experienced SWE here. ChatGPT is awesome for me. It's great for learning new technologies and it's great for writing programs that I'm too lazy to write myself.
- seanthemon 3y agoHey, also an SSE here, do you find that writing code is becoming a grind now that GPT can generally handle most changes within a single context? I'm having a harder and harder time justifying writing a lot of code myself when faster tools are right at my fingertips Would love to hear how other SWE's who are using GPT feel about this
- insanitybit 3y agoI mostly use ChatGPT to write code while I'm playing video games. Cutscene/ load screen comes up and I review what it sent and have it iterate. Then back to games. It's much slower at producing good code than I am but it's much faster for me to write a prompt than a program, so ultimately it allows me to do two things at once because 'prompt time' is so short I can fit it in between other things. I don't think of programming as a grind unless I'm working in a shitty codebase, which does happen, certainly.