An attempt to counter some of the worst of the fearmongering about how "GPT will replace all us devs!"
With the usual caveats of no one knows just where we are on the S curve for this tech, this jives with my experience. It's a great supplemental tool, especially for coding small variations of well-trod territory or for pulling the same load that Stack Overflow does, but the conceptual-markov-chain model seems to have a lot of problems where the fact that it is not really mentally modelling (so to speak) the problem and solution shines through. So it doesn't really iterate and check its own work automatically, because it's just coasting on how likely its response was.
(that said, my own foray into having ChatGPT write me a widget to show "what day of the week a date is across years" was eye opening - )
The whole idea of "prompt engineering" is so weird. On the one hand it's like you're a highly skilled "bot whisperer" with almost magical understanding. On the other hand, you're a bit like that guy in "Office Space" who brings the specifications from the customers down the software engineers... "I DEAL WITH THE BOTS SO THE CUSTOMERS DONT HAVE TO!" I HAVE BOT SKILLS!"
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