Mixed
It doesn’t solve the problems reliably by any means, but it’s good for getting an idea of an approach so I can go read the docs
wrs on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: How do you use AI for software engineering?”
Helped: Generating starting examples, rubber duck debugging, and answering specific version questions.
Got in the way: Unreliable problem solving and contradictory answers regarding solution validity.
I’ve been doing a lot of AWS infrastructure setup lately and use ChatGPT frequently to generate possible solutions and starting examples in CDK. It doesn’t solve the problems reliably by any means, but it’s good for getting an idea of an approach so I can go read the docs. It can even output a diagram if you ask for mermaid format. …