I used it as a tutor and asked tons of questions, and in a way "pair-programmed" with it around a lot of concepts
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In the thread “ChatGPT user sessions are down 29% since May”
Helped: Used as a tutor for pair programming and asking questions.
… I'm still using those patterns, practices, and insights in my day to day work, I just don't need to interrogate ChatGPT as much anymore. I never really used it in a "Here's something I want you to write, go do it." I used it as a tutor and asked tons of questions, and in a way "pair-programmed" with it around a lot of concepts, asked an insane amount of questions, took it's code, rewrote it, feed it back, asked more questions. When I worked at Microsoft at 18, there was a legendary engineer who blocked off 1 or 2 90 minute sessions per week for me to just ask questions and for us to pair program. …