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That is absolutely not true. I was using a Python charting library I had never used before. It was giving me code that was 95% correct, and I could prompt it to change things. It was way more efficient than finding a dozen different examples on Google and applying it to my code since it was continually able to modify the code it was giving me.


For a professional that already knows 95% of that lib. ChatGPT is mostly useless to fill that gap for the last 5%.


So don't use it to fill that gap? It's a tool so use it for what is good at, and don't try and hammer in screws with it. If you only program with libraries you are already an expert in, in languages you're also already an expert in, it might not present much value to you. For those that aren't already experts in both or either (say, when learning a new language at a new job), it's already great help.




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