I feel like I've mostly seen these AIs produce code on things that are mostly just copy-paste examples (login, fibonacci, primes). From a theoretical standpoint I'm only impressed if it's combining things to do achieve something that has no code example on the internet.
From a practical perspective I do think a lot of programmers are doing copy-paste in their day jobs, which means they should be reusing existing code (I would imagine there are numerous reusable customizable login forms).
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For example I asked it this:
Can you write a javascript function that takes a callback and returns the value of that callback, but returns a cached value if that function has been called less than 5 seconds ago?
And it produces code that looks right but doesn't work (doesn't handle arguments, failing its own example implementation). However, upon reminding it to support arguments it does work. I guess this is actually potentially useful.
Yeah for real I don't know why everybody is so impressed. Chatgpt is basically just copying what's already on the internet and rewording it. It's not self thinking and I personally think we will lose touch with different ideas from multiple sources and people because when an AI is only giving you one answer vs google giving you multiple opinions from different people it gives you more options.
Not to mention the copyright issues with this. It's just regurgitating what's already on the internet not sure why it's ok for them to copy people's work but if you do it you will get sued.
Holy molly, it's not copy-paste.
Keeping with the season, I tried today's Advent of Code puzzle:
```
One Elf has the important job of loading all of the rucksacks with supplies for the jungle journey. Unfortunately, that Elf didn't quite follow the packing instructions, and so a few items now need to be rearranged.
Each rucksack has two large compartments. All items of a given type are meant to go into exactly one of the two compartments. The Elf that did the packing failed to follow this rule for exactly one item type per rucksack.
The Elves have made a list of all of the items currently in each rucksack (your puzzle input), but they need your help finding the errors. Every item type is identified by a single lowercase or uppercase letter (that is, a and A refer to different types of items).
The list of items for each rucksack is given as characters all on a single line. A given rucksack always has the same number of items in each of its two compartments, so the first half of the characters represent items in the first compartment, while the second half of the characters represent items in the second compartment.
For example, suppose you have the following list of contents from six rucksacks:
The first rucksack contains the items vJrwpWtwJgWrhcsFMMfFFhFp, which means its first compartment contains the items vJrwpWtwJgWr, while the second compartment contains the items hcsFMMfFFhFp. The only item type that appears in both compartments is lowercase p.
The second rucksack's compartments contain jqHRNqRjqzjGDLGL and rsFMfFZSrLrFZsSL. The only item type that appears in both compartments is uppercase L.
The third rucksack's compartments contain PmmdzqPrV and vPwwTWBwg; the only common item type is uppercase P.
The fourth rucksack's compartments only share item type v.
The fifth rucksack's compartments only share item type t.
The sixth rucksack's compartments only share item type s.
To help prioritize item rearrangement, every item type can be converted to a priority:
Lowercase item types a through z have priorities 1 through 26.
Uppercase item types A through Z have priorities 27 through 52.
In the above example, the priority of the item type that appears in both compartments of each rucksack is 16 (p), 38 (L), 42 (P), 22 (v), 20 (t), and 19 (s); the sum of these is 157.
```
Adding the question: "Write a solution in JavaScript to find the sum of the priorities of those item types." got me:
From a practical perspective I do think a lot of programmers are doing copy-paste in their day jobs, which means they should be reusing existing code (I would imagine there are numerous reusable customizable login forms).
---
For example I asked it this:
Can you write a javascript function that takes a callback and returns the value of that callback, but returns a cached value if that function has been called less than 5 seconds ago?
And it produces code that looks right but doesn't work (doesn't handle arguments, failing its own example implementation). However, upon reminding it to support arguments it does work. I guess this is actually potentially useful.