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It's good...and bad. I dunno. I asked ChatGPT to update some basic CRUD functions in client side javascript a couple days ago so that it followed a UML schematic more accurately... and it just took my entire code base and wrapped it in a single class....and that was it.
So then I was like no, here's some sample classes from the UML and here's some properties and how these methods map to these functions I wrote before, get it?
And then, yeah, it did the thing I wanted...so...cool? I mean, sure, you can call it skill issues with prompting, but man, I've been coding with this thing for some time now, and sometimes I'm just like, "I miss stack overflow man"...and shit...I never thought I'd ever say that.
Sure, coding was slower, and maybe you didn't find the thing you needed to fix your problem, but that friction taught you so much and you made friends (and enemies) as you tried to get an answer to your problem. Now we're all missing out on that and just making the AI sort of kind of not really better.
AI makes you dependent, and I'd never stake my life or wellbeing on it.
The dependency is by design. If what you do can be replicated well by AI, you need to upskill or you'll starve.