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I believe only not-so-strong developers actually believe this, after actual experience with this tech. That's just like saying that "Stackoverflow is like having a Principal Engineer around 24/7" which could be true to a degree, but it still doesn't make up for not knowing stuff.

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This tells me that you haven't used GPT-4 (Thats not the free ChatGPT), or have not learned how to prompt properly. You can't ask Stack Overflow follow up questions. If the code from stack overflow does not work in the way you expect it to or the answer is not 100% accurate, you can't ask Stack Overflow to correct it.

Also, its better in the hands of Senior Engineers who can evaluate answers for correctness, because just like Google/Stack overflow, it can be wrong.

On the contrary: the system contains a canned comment describing just how to ask a follow-up question!

> If you have a new question, please ask it by clicking the Ask Question button. Include a link to this question if it helps provide context.

And if the answers to an existing question aren't what you expect:

> You can also add a bounty to draw more attention to this question once you have enough reputation.

My experience with GPT-4 is that it's been amazing for python and mediocre at DAX. It frequently hallucinates functions, gives code that can't run, or does not fit the prompt.

It is still helpful, but there's a big gap between how helpful it is, depending on the tech.

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