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Do you often use ChatGPT for coding?

Maybe it's my prompting skill that are lacking, but to me it feels like a super weak junior dev

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I use it quite a bit for things that are (1) widespread (= it has a lot of data about it) and (2) I'm not super familiar with 

Faster to kickstart things than going through docs / stackoverflow

yep I agree, I think it's really good at summarizing technical stuff, and answering questions. I use it often for that as well.
But once you ask it to write code 7/10 times it just hallucinates a bunch of stuff, or the debugging is just not worth it lol
Like, the AI should debug my code not the other way around haha

I think you just have to push back A LOT. Stop the prompt immediately when you see an error and complain about it, let it run and stop prompt again when you see the next error. Rinse and repeat and you'll get a very high quality result. I use gpt-cli, so I literally kill it with Ctrl-C, it's quite natural

@lajos Define a system prompt with your preferences. E.g. here's mine (it keeps growing)

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