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it sucks at programming proper
in practice all you can ask it is bits of code that illustrate concepts, or interfaces youre working with
which is pretty damn powerful in itself, actually
i experienced that with opengl where learning what would take me a week or so took me a dozen hours.
you can ask it to break down the steps of a process, and keep prompting it for alternative ways to explain the thing until you get it
what can work is if you tell it to generate a function within a specific context, but that becomes tedious very quickly, to the point where writing the code directly is actually faster and less work intensive
maybe theres some system prompt shenanigans to be attempted, but i didnt test it yet, what im working with doesnt have enough training data (c intrinsics and pretty advanced optimizations. picrel)
and its still dyslexic. its a machine built out of stats, so it wont provide the best solution, it will provide *a* solution which might not even be correct. otherwise its gonna be the most statistically significant one anyways, not the best or best adapted one
so, its a force multiplier, but it has many limitations