Sure, but by randomly guessing code you’d get 0%. Getting 48% right is actually very impressive for an LLM compared to just a few years ago.
Exactly, I also find that it tends to do a pretty good job pointing you in the right direction. It’s way faster than googling or going through sites like stackoverflow because the answers are contextual. You can ask about a specific thing you want to do, and and an answer that gives you a general idea of what to do. For example, I’ve found it to be great for crafting complex sql queries. I don’t really care if the answer is perfect, as long as it gives me an idea of what I need to do.
You can also play with it to try and get closer to correct. I had problems with getting an Excel macro working and getting unattended-updates working on my pihole. GPT was wrong at first, but got me partly there and I could massage the question and Google and get closer to the right answer. Without it, I wouldn’t have been able to get any of it, especially with the macro.
Just useful enough to become incredibly dangerous to anyone who doesn’t know what they’re doing. Isn’t it great?
Now non-coders can finally wield the foot-gun once reserved only for coders! /s
Truth be told, computer engineering should really be something that one needs a licence to do commercially, just like regular engineering. In this modern era where software can be ruinous to someone’s life just like shoddy engineering, why is it not like this already.
Look, nothing will blow up if I mess up my proxy setup on my machine. I just won’t have internet until I revert my change. Why would that be different if I were getting paid for it?
