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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You shouldn't use code that you don't understand. Chatgpt outputs quite readable and understandable code and makes sure to explain a lot of it and you can ask questions about it.

It can save quite a lot of effort, especially for tasks that are more tedious than hard. Even more if you have a general idea of what you want to do but you're not familiar with the specific tools and libraries that you want to use for the task.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

It's also wrong a lot. Hence the requirement for understanding. It can be helpful to get through a stretch but it will fuck up before too long and relying on it entirely is a bad idea.