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YesChatGPT · 14 Nov 2023

GPT is succeeding. Yes, yes, I know some of you sell these tools and some of you have even been very successful in that effort but in my anecdotal experience from 98 municipalities, it’s never once worked, not for long anyway

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98 municipalities

In the thread “A coder considers the waning days of the craft”, replying to this comment

Helped: Automating routine tasks, documentation, and generating boilerplate code from data.

Got in the way: Handling complex business logic, scaling, resource usage, and error handling.

I’ve spent a long time in the public sector digitalisation in Denmark and where every other “no-code/low-code” or whatever you call the tools that claim to not require programmers have failed miserably GPT is succeeding. Yes, yes, I know some of you sell these tools and some of you have even been very successful in that effort but in my anecdotal experience from 98 municipalities, it’s never once worked, not for long anyway. By contrast we now have digitally inclined employees creating and automating things with the help of CharGPT. …