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  • Stuka@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I played around with ChatGPT for programming for a few hours a while back.

    It is far better at explaining code in plain language than pretty much any human I’ve seen, atleast online. It’s absolute dogshit st writing anything but the most basic of code, but it does do a good job explaining.

    Programmers are shit at communicating.

    • sambeastie@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’ve found that it gives me a decent skeleton of something that I can then apply to my actual problem, but not much more, and it usually comes with some pretty big mistakes. I was trying to learn Z80 assembly and it gave me a good idea of how my code should generally look, but I did end up having to rewrite a whole bunch of it before I could actually execute anything.