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pistonstone t1_jc259uc wrote

My loyalty requires the answer to this: Will AI do more or less frequent software updates? 🤣 Seriously though I think AI will be a powerful tool for programmers.

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Charlotte_D_Katakuri OP t1_jc27wx5 wrote

I have a programmer friend who says he uses ChatGPT to do 5-10% of his job now

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LiberalLunatic69 t1_jc54t6w wrote

I am someone's programmers friend, and I also use Chat to do 5-10% of my job.

...mainly boilerplate stuff, but also as a debugger. "How could this code block be simplified/improved, why isn't this working, is possible to "x" while "y" is "z"ing?

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Vast-Sir-1949 t1_jc28lww wrote

Both. AI will be able to partition what needs/"wants" updates and do it faster on the fly but will also write better programming that does not need as much fixing.

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