Mixed
I don’t think I would have succeeded at all were it not for my ability to debug its output
lanstin on Hacker News
In the thread “AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will”, replying to this comment
Helped: Debugging output using existing experience and creative writing tasks.
Got in the way: Doing all daily software work without prior debugging experience.
This doesn’t really match my experience of trying to get GPT to do all my daily software work. I don’t think I would have succeeded at all were it not for my ability to debug its output, which of course is the result of my model of the reality of the computing system and years of debugging my own and others code. So if I lacked that experience, I don’t think it would that valuable. …