ill use copilot in place of most of the times ive searched on stackoverflow or to do mundane things like generate repeated things but relying solely on it is the same as relying solely on stackoverflow.

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The interesting bit for me is that if you ask a rando some programming questions they will be 99% wrong on average I think.

Stack overflow still makes more sense though.

Developing with ChatGPT feels bizzarely like when Tony Stark invented a new element with Jarvis' assistance.

It's a prolonged back and forth, and you need to point out the AIs mistakes and work through a ton of iterations to get something that is close enough that you can tweak it and use, but it's SO much faster than trawling through Stack Overflow or hoping someone who knows more than you can answer a post for you.

I don't even bother trying with AI, it's not been helpful to me a single time despite multiple attempts. That's a 0% success rate for me.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In recent years, computer programmers have flocked to chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT to help them code, dealing a blow to places like Stack Overflow, which had to lay off nearly 30 percent of its staff last year.

That's a staggeringly large proportion for a program that people are relying on to be accurate and precise, underlining what other end users like writers and teachers are experiencing: AI platforms like ChatGPT often hallucinate totally incorrectly answers out of thin air.

For the study, the researchers looked over 517 questions in Stack Overflow and analyzed ChatGPT's attempt to answer them.

The team also performed a linguistic analysis of 2,000 randomly selected ChatGPT answers and found they were "more formal and analytical" while portraying "less negative sentiment" — the sort of bland and cheery tone AI tends to produce.

The Purdue researchers polled 12 programmers — admittedly a small sample size — and found they preferred ChatGPT at a rate of 35 percent and didn't catch AI-generated mistakes at 39 percent.

The study demonstrates that ChatGPT still has major flaws — but that's cold comfort to people laid off from Stack Overflow or programmers who have to fix AI-generated mistakes in code.

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I would make some 1000 monkeys with typewriters comment, but I see what most actual contracted devs produce...

I've used chatgpt and gemini to build some simple powershell scripts for use in intune deployments. They've been fairly simple scripts. Very few have of them have been workable solutions out of the box, and they've often filled with hallucinated cmdlets that don't exist or are part of a thirdparty module that it doesn't tell me needs to be installed. It's not useless tho, because I am a lousy programmer its been good to give me a skeleton for which I can build a working script off of and debug myself.

I reiterate that I am a lousy programmer, but it has sped up my deployments because I haven't had to work from scratch. 5/10 its saved me a half hour here and there.