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YesChatGPT · 14 Nov 2023

I feel the more experienced you are as a developer, the less valuable it is

gilthans on Hacker News

In the thread “Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?”, replying to this comment

Helped: Brainstorming tricky problems in unfamiliar fields like GIS and async integration.

Got in the way: Provided fake solutions initially and failed to solve most problems without intervention.

… ChatGPT definitely didn't solve every problem I came to it with, probably not even most, and even when it did I had to intervene signficantly. I feel the more experienced you are as a developer, the less valuable it is. But when you need to tinker in a field you're not proficient at, or if you need to brainstorm a solution to a tricky problem, it can be a great tool. …