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   phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 01:23:14 JST phryk 🏴

   • Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)

   @ovid I've had ChatGPT write snippets, but they aren't really reliable.

   For example it absolutely got the API of pythons ast module wrong (which to be fair, is likely a result of the documentation). It did however point me in the right direction to solve the problem I was working on.

   But, crucially, I haven't seen it do any actual software *engineering*.

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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 01:23:14 JST lainy

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     • Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)
     @phryk @ovid interestingly, you can often get it to fix the code by just telling it what it did wrong and posting the docs at it
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     phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 01:43:08 JST phryk 🏴

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     • Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)

     @lain In the AST case I tried for about half an hour but it just kept adding new subtle errors that exploded when actually running the code.^^

     @ovid

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