I've been using Bing's GPT-4 to learn Fortran for about a week. Well, I'm mainly reading a book which is project-oriented so I'm often researching topics which

I've been using Bing's GPT-4 to learn Fortran for about a week. Well, I'm mainly reading a book which is project-oriented so I'm often researching topics which aren't covered in enough detail or covered later. I think this mixed-mode approach is great for learning. Since Fortran's documentation is sparse and Google's results are garbage the output of GPT4 helps cut through a lot of the cruft. Half the time it teaches me, the rest I'm teaching it and correcting its mistakes. I certainly won't trust it for anything half complicated but I think it does a good job linking to trustworthy supporting sources, which is how I learned how to cast assumed-rank arrays using c_loc/c_f_pointer and sequence-association using (*) or (1). It's great for learning new concepts and I imagine it would be great for pair-coding in which it suggests oversights to your code. However I can't imagine depending on it to generate anything from scratch. What's surprising is how little help the compiler is - about as bad a resource as SEO junk. I'm used to "-Wall -Werror" from C, but so many gfortran warnings are incorrect.