I tried Poe (the chatbot by discord) and the response was really amazing.
I think at least for now, I can ask to generate the skeleton code for stuff.
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Other day I couldn’t remember how to write criteria statement, since my chatGPT was opened I asked it, and the answer was good enough.
I have a ambiguous feeling about it, I feel it may help a lot, and at the same time I feel it can pretty much substitute us at some point xD
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I am not overly worried yet, especially from what I have read about some of it’s other answers to questions. At least in other areas, it provides answers that appear authoritative, but that are not rooted in reality. For example, if asked about the first book published on a topic, the book it mentions may not even exist. If this is the level of trustworthiness of the answers provided, I certainly would not trust it to provide a solution to a more complex programming challenge. For simple programming tasks that are more easily verified, it may be fine. For something more complete, that verification will also be more complex and, most probably, it would need to be corrected or possibly re-written to work as needed. But, if you need fiction, it seems to be great at that.
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I do, and it has benefited me most of the time, but it is occasionally unable to function correctly. That is both frightening and interesting.
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Hi there! Recent full stack web dev grad here… career transitioning from academia, where I spent my time thinking about cross-cultural psychology, ecopsychology, and education.
As I am new to coding, most of what I worked on probably wasn’t anywhere near the complexity of what some of y’all work on. Given that piece of background information, I can say with confidence that ChatGPT is an excellent tool insofar as it offers students a chance to dialog about code or concepts before calling other resources (like teachers who have already answered the same newbie question a dozen times that day). I think it will basically merge with what we currently think of as “Googling it”.
Any drawbacks? Oh, heck yeah! It can take you down some wacky rabbit holes and you can easily lose track of your problem, your code, your mind… and you can easily be seduced by the dialog and the apparent confidence of the AI, which can lead to ridiculous mistakes like not doing your version control properly 
and it can definitely, definitely lead you way off track and away from actual workable code and solutions.
Imho, this moment presents us with the opportunity to have a pair programmer to hopefully help push past the boring stuff or problem-solve with a robotic eye for detail. But I think we are still quite far from being able to simply instruct AI to take care of something and have any expectation that our wishes will be carried out the way the human mind is capable of envisioning.
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Do you need the paid version to be able to actually use it to generate code snippets?
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the free version will generate plenty of code with prompting
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