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MixedChatGPT · 10 Aug 2025

ChatGPT often do it in one minute and does it correctly

vbezhenar on Hacker News

one minute

In the thread “Knuth on ChatGPT (2023)”, replying to this comment

Helped: Speed on tedious jq scripts and early bug detection during code review.

Got in the way: Irrelevant issues in code review and potential loss of mental ability.

… For example I can write `jq` incantations, but it takes some time and man digging, so for non-trivial cases I can easily spend hour tinkering with it. ChatGPT often do it in one minute and does it correctly. So in this case I can perfectly evaluate the result. …