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Comment by foverzar

Oh c'mon, is this what really impresses you?

> It's not just spitting out generic things, there is genuine understanding here and genuine creativity.

Srsly? I really can't wrap my head around where specifically did you find "understanding" or "creativity".

The "squishy stuff" is super boring SEO-like text you'd find in some sales-person blog, who needs to run their mouth, but have zero in-depth understanding or appreciation of the hard domain problems. How is any of this non-generic? There is absolutely no substance here!

Real "squishy stuff" would be something around "handling personal data", "ensuring verifiability and correctness", "productive quality assurance", "robust and scalable systems architecture", "managing complexity in a way that doesn't require rebuilding the whole thing as soon as something inevitably changes", "observability", "productive documentation and self-documenting approaches to work" - you know, the REAL squishy stuff that REAL professionals have to deal with, not some totally vague abstract BS.

The code examples are also super-bad, incorrect and don't even actually fulfil your initial requirements: magic constants, use of undefined variables, "customer_address in country_1", "print", supporting merely 2 hardcoded currencies and languages, and routing them with "if", while also providing "else" fallback that you never implied in your requirements.

This is basically a throwaway random code, only thematically connected to your requirement and that could never under any circumstances be running in any productive scenario.

> Honestly there's a good number of people who aren't getting how revolutionary chatGPT

Honestly there's a good number of people who don't understand objective limits and properties of chatGTP, despite it actually totally being revolutionary.

All in all, chatGPT output seems more like a product of work of some total but productive idiot, left with a task and google: simplistic, totally naive, zero understanding or creativity.

It's good for fun rhetorical exercises, very useful for things that you don't know anything about, but in any professional environment it can only be used in a super-limited scope, supervised by an actual professional. Basically just an enhanced "monkey with a typewriter".

parent foverzar 3 years ago

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