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Three examples:

1. having ChatGPT generate boilerplate, because I’m lazy;

2. having ChatGPT attempt something I don’t know as a starting point, eg JavaScript; or,

3. having ChatGPT give a reference rather than Google myself, eg of a config option.

ChatGPT makes 1 less tedious, 3 less a game of “what magic phrase finds the right SO post?”, and means I do 2 at all, eg trying out JS features on my blog.

I think it does alright at composition if you break down the task sufficiently, but it struggles with higher order structure — particularly if you’re using multiple responses.

That said, I suspect we need a theory shift to get AI to comprehend higher order structure in composition.



It's pretty amazing at generating rust structs from yaml examples, and also at writing generic versions of rust functions.

Neither of those tasks are especially _difficult_, but they are _annoying_.




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