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dimgl on May 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT

> If you have to verify every detail of its responses, what good was it to ask it in the first place?

This is exactly right. I've had this same problem when using ChatGPT for coding. If it's right 70% of the time (and I have to check if it's right), then what's the point? I might as well just look up the answer myself. I find it more concerning all of these developers on Reddit saying that "they get stuff done way quicker" because "ChatGPT built it for them". How much problematic software is going to be deployed now because of this?

manquer on May 21, 2023 [–]

Yes , while not close to anything Copilot is capable of , most importantly Intellisense is precise.

Programmers should value precision over productivity of generating code for something that has compile and run.

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