ChatGPT has no concept of a model for code, no understanding of syntax or logic or even language keywords. It just pulls info out of it's backside that sounds believable like a lot of people do, it's just better at it. I suspect the immediate future will be resplendent with tales of AI-generated code causing catastrophes.

i use copilot every day, and it's never written more than one line at a time that didn't need adjusting. If you are letting an AI write code for you without knowing what it does, you should not be in programming. I would probably just fire someone if their response to me was ever "well the AI wrote that bit of code that deleted our DB, i didnt know what it did"

There’s a lot of people doing a big circle jerk over ChatGPT with wild ideas of singularity and oddly eagerly awaiting the end of white collar work. Whatever. I agree that programmers being obsessed with it can lead to skill atrophy. But, in reality, there are many people that are very technical and are not becoming reliant on these things for coding.

I agree, but it doesn't have to be that way. I've been learning a couple new languages and frameworks lately and found it really accelerates my learning, increases enjoyment, and is good at explaining the silly mistakes that I make.

So it can enhance skills just as much as it can atrophy them.

And I'm okay with some skills atrophying... I hate writing regular expressions, but they're so useful for some situations. It's a shame chatGPT fails so hard at them, otherwise I would be content to never use a regex again.