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So far my experience has been the opposite with ChapGPT FWIW. Overall it has cost me more time sending me down rabbit holes that it totally made up, but said with absolute confidence.

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This is interesting to hear!

A key caveat in much of what I'm doing, is I'm implementing things I previously did for other projects in the past 15 years... so I'm using old technology, know the terminology, and can troubleshoot 90% correct stuff that chatGPT gives me.

I haven't done as much "I have no idea where to start" stuff.

I have, and while it’s not perfect I’ve found that it makes a great tutor. I’ve asked it a lot of programming questions where my starting point was 0, and my biggest takeaway is it will give you exactly what you ask for and nothing else.

This can be a bit of a problem since you can’t ask for what you don’t know, so starting broad by having it explain the general concepts to you, and then slowly getting more specific with direct pointed questions had the best outcomes.

I came at it too from a 'I've done this for more than a decade' perspective as well. I simply found that it's advice was already something I knew, or outright wrong, or wrong but very convincing that it could work.

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