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AI isn’t ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say
(arstechnica.com)
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Absolutely agree. I just use it for some simple stuff like "every nth row in a pandas dataframe slice a string from x to y if column z is True" or something like that. These logics take time to write, and GPT usually comes up with a right solution or one that doesn't need a lot of modification.
But debugging or analyzing an error? No thanks
I have on multiple occasions told it exactly what the error is and how to fix it. The AI agrees, apologizes, and gives me the same broken code again. It takes the same amount of time to describe the error as it would have for me to fix it.
My rule of thumb is, if he doesn't give you the solution right off the bat he won't give you one. If that happens either fix it yourself or start a new chat and reformulate the question completely.