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fiddling with prompts and checking the responses is ultimately more work than just writing the code from scratch
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In the thread “The consequences of generative AI for online knowledge communities”, replying to this comment
Got in the way: GPT4 and Sonnet 3.5 failed to produce correct responses for off-path tasks.
… As such, they're certainly still useful for answering questions for which StackOverflow has a dozen duplicates, and that may very well be a net positive for StackOverflow. Here's an example of something that came up in my work the other day - fiddling with prompts and checking the responses is ultimately more work than just writing the code from scratch. GPT4 and Sonnet 3.5 never came close to a correct response, even though the code always looks sort of "directionally correct". …