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YesChatGPT · 19 Sep 2023

ChatGPT just gets me there faster, and more often than not, gives me acceptable production-level innards while I get to stay focused on perfecting the exterior and cohesiveness of the overall solution

t1mmen on Hacker News

In the thread “ChatGPT Isn't Coming for Your Coding Job”, replying to this comment

Helped: Faster generation of acceptable production-level internals.

… If and when things needed to be rewritten or optimized, replace the internals. ChatGPT just gets me there faster, and more often than not, gives me acceptable production-level innards while I get to stay focused on perfecting the exterior and cohesiveness of the overall solution. I’ve found this approach usually pays dividend when reworking parts of the system, too — GPT picks up on the flow of everything much better when the code is “self documenting”. …