@level2wizard thank you for your thoughts and taking the time to lay them out!

i agree that LLMs shouldn't be trusted without checking yourself. and i'm sorry to hear that you object to your code being contained in training data.

i often find ChatGPT to be a valuable tool for topics where one has zero knowledge or a lot of knowledge. zero knowledge topics to get an idea what it's about, lot of knowledge topics to validate yourself whether the LLM is correct.

the advantage of ChatGPT is that it addresses questions you pose. this dialectic approach is one of the most effective ways to learn. one gets instant feedback, the time between wondering and finding out is minimized.

yeah the Starbound code seems really well structured and nice! that's why I started there to learn some C++ while doing something fun. i'll play around with it more, but not with the intention of finishing something.