I'll then verify the API/library docs with the given output and find my way through much faster than I would by starting on my own
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Helped: Condensing documentation and providing skeletons for new languages.
Got in the way: Business logic and handling private company code context.
… I will craft a prompt to ChatGPT to get me through the 80% of looking into docs. It will eventually hallucinate some property that doesn't exist, but since I kinda know what I'm looking for and just need the information condensed to move further I'll then verify the API/library docs with the given output and find my way through much faster than I would by starting on my own. To me it does not become a code generator aside from boilerplates and starting points in languages I'm not an expert, it even helps me a lot to learn a new language (like Rust) where I can get a simple skeleton out of it for a task I want to do and code on my own later, just returning to ChatGPT to ask things like "how could I open a file with write …