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ChatGPT is a junior programmer who knows everything and can do shallow things (like this) instantly. I'm not sure it will ever be a really good programmer, but

ChatGPT is a junior programmer who knows everything and can do shallow things (like this) instantly. I'm not sure it will ever be a really good programmer, but having such a junior dev at your fingertips feels like a superpower. The ability to decompose problems and recombine the solutions remains in the human sphere.

test6554 3y ago
Even when its wrong it can still surface those unknown unknowns that would have cost you lots of time figuring out.
paganel 3y ago
> ChatGPT is a junior programmer who knows everything and can do shallow things (like this) instantly. But how do I know that the code doesn't do something malicious? As in, calling a .ru or .cn flight tracker (and thus giving it my geo position, and the geo-positions of everyone using the app I had designed via ChatGPT) instead of a genuine, non-adversarial one? You could say: "it's using opensky-network.org, not a .ru nor a .cn domain, it's right there int he code, it's genuine" which would be correct on the surface, but as someone who has had no connection to this space how do I know who opensky-network.org is without first going on their website and checking who they are? And thus increasing my development time and approaching said development time to a real-life solution. And I only gave one simple adversarial scenario, one that can be easily checked and debunked, but there are other many scenarios more convoluted than that.
- javajosh 3y ago
  This is precisely what a senior does for a junior: review their code. Not just for it's ability to run, but what resources it uses, which resources can be trusted, and what other resources are available. That's what makes the experience novel: it's a junior that knows all the languages, all the services, all the idioms, but who has zero judgement about whether to use them.

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ChatGPT is a junior programmer who knows everything and can do shallow things (like this) instantly. I'm not sure it will ever be a really good programmer, but

by javajosh 3y ago

test6554 3y ago
Even when its wrong it can still surface those unknown unknowns that would have cost you lots of time figuring out.
paganel 3y ago
> ChatGPT is a junior programmer who knows everything and can do shallow things (like this) instantly. But how do I know that the code doesn't do something malicious? As in, calling a .ru or .cn flight tracker (and thus giving it my geo position, and the geo-positions of everyone using the app I had designed via ChatGPT) instead of a genuine, non-adversarial one? You could say: "it's using opensky-network.org, not a .ru nor a .cn domain, it's right there int he code, it's genuine" which would be correct on the surface, but as someone who has had no connection to this space how do I know who opensky-network.org is without first going on their website and checking who they are? And thus increasing my development time and approaching said development time to a real-life solution. And I only gave one simple adversarial scenario, one that can be easily checked and debunked, but there are other many scenarios more convoluted than that.
- javajosh 3y ago
  This is precisely what a senior does for a junior: review their code. Not just for it's ability to run, but what resources it uses, which resources can be trusted, and what other resources are available. That's what makes the experience novel: it's a junior that knows all the languages, all the services, all the idioms, but who has zero judgement about whether to use them.