> Making a coffee table out of a solid slab of walnut, for example, will last a lifetime
Not CNC, right?
Yeah I think it's fun to discuss. I think we're saying the same thing. I'm not saying ChatGPT could replace a professional software engineer for most things at this stage. That clearly isn't practical yet.
As you said, it does make mistakes, though it can often correct them if the context window is there. The differences in how we use it for programming tasks and what we find useful is probably related to our SWE skill levels. Yours is likely much higher than mine, as I've never been a professional SWE.
That said, for the many little automation tasks that business people often bug a real engineer for, like iterating through a CSV and hitting an API to do something, then writing a result, it's ability to write simple and useful python scripts has been amazing for me.
I believe it's getting close to the place where I could use to to prototype simple MVPs but it failed during my last attempt.
Not CNC, right?
Yeah I think it's fun to discuss. I think we're saying the same thing. I'm not saying ChatGPT could replace a professional software engineer for most things at this stage. That clearly isn't practical yet.
As you said, it does make mistakes, though it can often correct them if the context window is there. The differences in how we use it for programming tasks and what we find useful is probably related to our SWE skill levels. Yours is likely much higher than mine, as I've never been a professional SWE.
That said, for the many little automation tasks that business people often bug a real engineer for, like iterating through a CSV and hitting an API to do something, then writing a result, it's ability to write simple and useful python scripts has been amazing for me.
I believe it's getting close to the place where I could use to to prototype simple MVPs but it failed during my last attempt.