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YesGPT · 6 Feb 2024

GPT4 boosts my productivity as a software engineer because it helps me travel the path quicker

jonnycoder on Hacker News

In the thread “Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf]”, replying to this comment

Helped: Traveling the path quicker as an assistant.

Got in the way: Generated code snippets need a lot of work.

… That's a concise explanation that also applies to GPTs and software engineering. GPT4 boosts my productivity as a software engineer because it helps me travel the path quicker. Most generated code snippets need a lot of work because I'm prodding it for specific use cases and it fails. …