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by padolsey·3y ago·view on hn ↗
> I haven't seen or heard of anyone that seriously uses ChatGPT to generate code and uses it in prod

I have. And I'm sure others have too. I dare say there are many who probably _shouldn't_ be using it because of privacy/IP concerns and so you won't hear about them.

> cute novelty [...]

I thought the same not so long ago. But gpt4 for me was a game changer. It's helped me debug and fix some legitimately complex code, and has been awesome at wholesale refactoring modules to fulfil a new purpose. E.g. today I wanted help reconciling between runtime and persistent LRU cache stuff. And it understood what I wanted and assisted. After a few nudges it gave me a refactored module with comments and a few tests. It's like having a very capable junior dev in one's pocket :P

Ps. Trust me: it's not long before we have ai coding bots that grab open tickets and hammer together PRs with full testing suites. I imagine it's already happening.

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> I imagine it's already happening.

Not quite, that I know of, but some of us are working on it :)

I have a feeling that while the glorious future you describe can probably be realized using LLMs as a foundational technology, the software engineering effort needed to get there is on par with other AI moonshot projects e.g. autonomous vehicles.

If you or others reading this are interested in this topic, see this post for some interesting discussion and links to projects in development (and in the comments there's a link to a Discord server that was set up for further discussion): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36422730

Can you not please? I enjoy coding and I don’t want to have to change careers again. Can you just automate something else like Congress or the people running the Taco Bell drive through?