• iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    My impression is that with some guidance it can put together a basic skeleton of complex stuff too. But you need a specialist level of knowledge to fix the fail at compile level mistakes or worse yet mistakes that compile but don’t at all achieve the intended result. To me it has been most useful at getting the correct arguments for argument heavy libraries like plotly, remembering how to do stuff in bash or learning something from scratch like 3js. Soon as you try to do something more complex than it can handle, it confidently starts cycling through the same couple of mistakes over and over. The key words it spews in those mistakes can sometimes be helpful to direct your search online though.

    So it has the potential to be helpful to a programmer but it cant yet replace programmers as tech bros like to fantasize about.