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MixedGPT · 8 Apr 2023

If you need to debug a large complex code base, then it doesn't currently have enough capacity to understand and retain all the information required

mike_hearn on Hacker News

In the thread “I wish GPT4 had never happened”, replying to this comment

Helped: Compiling English specs to code for unfamiliar UI toolkits.

Got in the way: Debugging large complex code bases and making small changes.

… If you're just banging out some code that is very similar to what other people write using very well-known APIs, then it's fantastic. If you need to debug a large complex code base, then it doesn't currently have enough capacity to understand and retain all the information required. It can't do many other things you would need as well. …