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YesChatGPT · 11 Feb 2025

I hired a junior developer for a couple months and was incredibly impressed with what he was able to accomplish with a paid ChatGPT subscription on a greenfield project for me

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Helped: Greenfield project with junior developer

Got in the way: Struggles with mature code bases

I hired a junior developer for a couple months and was incredibly impressed with what he was able to accomplish with a paid ChatGPT subscription on a greenfield project for me. He’d definitely struggle with a mature code base, it you have to start somewhere!