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Had a wild week where GPT-4 helped me debug a bug in 5 seconds that I had been hunting for 3 days
I was stuck on this weird loop issue in my side project last Wednesday and out of frustration I just pasted the whole function into the chat and it instantly spotted a off-by-one error I never would have caught - has anyone else had a moment where AI saved you from a total coding meltdown?
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lee.cora12d ago
Nah, I gotta push back a little here. The AI didn't save you, you still did the hard part. You wrote the function, you knew where to look, you had the context to understand the fix. The AI just pointed at the obvious mistake, but you're the one who actually knew what the code was supposed to do. It's a tool, not a miracle worker. I've seen people paste garbage into these things and get garbage back, so the real skill is still being a decent developer in the first place.
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