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NoChatGPT, Copilot · 27 Jun 2023

I have been trying to use both ChatGPT and Copilot, and the results are abysmal apart from anything but "write me a linked list" or "give me some React boilerplate

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In the thread “Show HN: Superblocks AI – AI coding assistant for internal apps”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Generated code had comical mistakes and failed to compile or work.

Forgive the long reply, but I'm going to go ahead and "press X to doubt," because I have been trying to use both ChatGPT and Copilot, and the results are abysmal apart from anything but "write me a linked list" or "give me some React boilerplate." If you have examples of it working for you, please share them. Here's a very salient example of it not working for me: I spent about 1-2 days figuring this out, so it's definitely non-trivial, but it's not something insane either. …