People who know programming already, yes. People who are getting into it / want to get into it, see it as an amazing shortcut.
I had two working students already, who thought and communicated that they don’t really need to learn programming, because they can do it with ChatGPT / Q. It was quite infuriating.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
For real. You can tell how good a programmer someone is, by how good they think an LLM is at programming.
Mmagnusson@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
I use it to bounce ideas around with or get it to direct me in the right direction if I am stumped for further research, but it will be a cold day in Hell before I have it write more than the most gruntiest of grunt boilerplate code. It just can’t do it to a useful standard without a lot of oversight.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Same, it’s largely doing pretty much as the article implies, replacing StackOverflow for when I need the correct runes to do something specific.