[COFF] Re: The era of general purpose computing (Re: AIX moved into maintainance mode (COFFed)

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On 2023-01-22 00:23, David Arnold wrote (in part):
 > I’ve played with ChatGPT, and the first 10 minutes were a bit
 > confronting.  But the remainder of the hour or so I played
 > overcame my initial concerns.
 >
 > It’s amazing what can be done, especially with Javascript or
 > Python, when you ask for something that’s fairly simple to
 > define, and in a common application area.  You can get reasonable
 > code, refine it, ask for an altered approach, etc.  It’s probably
 > quicker than writing it yourself, especially if you’re not
 > intimately familiar with the library being used (or even the
 > language).
 >
 > But … it pretty quickly becomes clear that there’s no semantic
 > understanding of what’s being done behind it.  And unless you
 > specify what you want in pretty minute detail, the output is
 > unlikely to be what you want.

The comment by Derek Jones 
(https://shape-of-code.com/2023/01/15/coding-mistakes-made-by-chatgtp/) 
may be of interest here.

N.