ChatGPT makes software development 10x more efficient.

Issues and little terminal glitches that used to take me 10-20-30min of debug time scanning multiple sites for answers now get curated in seconds with a high degree of accuracy and success rate.

It’s not perfect, but WOW it’s a massive improvement for my use cases.

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Very useful if you know what you're doing and understand the code it writes. Dangerous in the wrong hands. It takes shortcuts that it shouldn't. Like using Math.random to generate a private key.

Yikes 😬. If you were teaching somebody to code, how long would you make them wait before letting them use an AI?

Good question, as I use it more and more today I find myself also “skipping over” some of the learning moments for the sake of time and efficiency. Which you could argue is high time preference behavior…

Part of me thinks make it immediate to get some early momentum… but another part of me thinks 6-9 months after they complete a beginner —> intermediate curriculum.

Yeah I think at least a year of actual experience would be ideal. It does feel like high time preference behavior. It’s so easy to become dependent on and it introduces subtle bugs if you aren’t super careful.

Yea I should clarify I’m using it right now for simple website building. Interesting and completely agree private key management & generation should be separate… anything that needs to be highly secure for that matter.

This is truly an unparalleled technology that allows people to increase efficiency, free up time, reduce stress, 🐶 and retain more hair!

Truly, but I also agree with some of the warnings and comments in the thread.

Needs to be used like it’s your pairing buddy vs an omnipotent code god.