> At one point, we wanted a command that would print a hundred random lines from a dictionary file. I thought about the problem for a few minutes, and, when thi

> At one point, we wanted a command that would print a hundred random lines from a dictionary file. I thought about the problem for a few minutes, and, when thinking failed, tried Googling. I made some false starts using what I could gather, and while I did my thing—programming—Ben told GPT-4 what he wanted and got code that ran perfectly. This is pretty basic stuff. It should not even require Googling unless you don't really know the language. This supports my belief that ChatGPT is simply going to replace the very bad programmers. But we never really needed them to begin with. I have no faith that GPT-4's code actually "ran perfectly"; this programmer clearly does not have the chops to tell whether or not the code was correct. And we're talking about, like, 100-level CS homework here.