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0 pointswhateveracct3y ago0 comments

Using natural language to code isn't going to help me. It's less dense informationally already. I don't have a stream of natural language in my head when I program or build software, so it's not free to use GPT.

This may be a Haskell thing. But I did try and even for small programs it was cute but not actually an efficiency gain over me just doing it.

Not to mention in real life, I have to deal with fallout and bugs and I think GPT deprives me of key processes that allow me to be excellent in that regard. If you aren't a coder and code a backend with GPT, what do you do when the shit hits the fan?

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ldhough3y ago

I mostly work in Clojure and I've noticed this as well, it is usually more efficient to just write it myself if I know what I want to do. However for a language or stack I don't understand well where I just need something quick and dirty it really shines... I had to work with a JS visualization library and got it to write what I needed over 10-15 iterations, much faster than if I actually had to learn the library. General programming knowledge sufficed for noticing things that didn't look right and since the output was visual that helped to sanity check the output as well.

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