On 2023-01-22 00:23, David Arnold wrote (in part):
I’ve played with ChatGPT, and the first 10 minutes
were a bit
confronting. But the remainder of the hour or so I played
overcame my initial concerns.
It’s amazing what can be done, especially with Javascript or
Python, when you ask for something that’s fairly simple to
define, and in a common application area. You can get reasonable
code, refine it, ask for an altered approach, etc. It’s probably
quicker than writing it yourself, especially if you’re not
intimately familiar with the library being used (or even the
language).
But … it pretty quickly becomes clear that there’s no semantic
understanding of what’s being done behind it. And unless you
specify what you want in pretty minute detail, the output is
unlikely to be what you want.
The comment by Derek Jones
(
https://shape-of-code.com/2023/01/15/coding-mistakes-made-by-chatgtp/)
may be of interest here.
N.