Mixed
generating generic code that saves a google lookup is pretty good but anything more complex seems to be a waste of time
obpe on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: What programming tasks you saw GPT4 fail badly at”
Helped: Generating generic code that saves a google lookup.
Got in the way: Complex tasks in a legacy web environment.
… I think a big problem for me is I work in a legacy web environment with a lot of technologies that were never popular. So generating generic code that saves a google lookup is pretty good but anything more complex seems to be a waste of time. The biggest successes I have seen are where AI does all, or most, of the work. …