Notices by Mario Zechner (badlogic@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 4

If you think this will replace programmers anytime soon, I would like to get the phone number of your dealer.

If you give this to a junior dev without human supervision, you will forever have a junior dev churning out bad code that ignores any and all error states and corner cases.

Response times make this an inefficient tool to work on anything that's longer than a simple, self-contained function.

And even for the "single, self-contained function" use case, it usually shits the bed so hard the further you get away from "standard" problems, you'll spend more time massaging it via natural language input than writing things from scratch yourself.

Yes, GPT-4 is slightly better, given the bigger token window. But that's more than counter acted by the further increased response times. Also, it still shits the bed with anything that's "do a qsort in Python".

This is going to be a tool that will be used by many people, only to realize that diminishes their code comprehension and design skills. We'll have to unlearn all this again, once we see the real world negative impact it has on businesses and software quality.

ChatGPT/Copilot finally give programmers a chance to experience how non-technical people feel when trying to coerce programmers to create a thing.

You too can now throw imprecise natural language prompts at a magic coding box and get disillusioned by the results.