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  • Let’s acknowledge the good: AI-assisted coding can be a game-changer. It lowers barriers for new programmers and non-programmers, allowing them to produce working software by simply describing what they need.

    CW made a simple software in C# as MVC with ChatGPT. Let it change it once. HE DID ESSENTIALLY NOTHING FOR 7 WEEKS, EXCEPT ASKING ME TO FIX ANOTHER BUG EVERY WEEK. WE’RE SUPPOSED TO LEARN SOMETHING. GIVING JUNIORS AI TO “PROGRAM” IS LIKE GIVING A TODDLER THE TOP TEN DEADLIEST SUBSTANCES TO LEARN WHAT IS TOXIC AND WHAT ISN’T.











  • CW be like:
    Spend 7 weeks learning C# (we learned Java in Uni, it’s not that hard ffs) and implementing a proper base for a project: Nah
    Let ChatGPT generate fucky code and let $me fix it over the span of 7 weeks: Hell yeah

    Had I realized that it all was generated, and he hadn’t a single little clue how it works, I would’ve just rewritten it with django or something. Hell, technically the whole server part wasn’t needed, it could’ve been index.html, style.css and scripts.js and that’s it.





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