This doesn’t ring true for me. I have ChatGPT write code for me that I could write myself. I’ve had ChatGPT even rewrite code for me to make it more legible. It’s pretty good at it, especially when it comes to more popular languages.
So much these discussions are pointless arguments over things we aren't even bothering to define in the discussion.
One person says "write code" in the context of chatGPT and they mean Common Lisp and chatGPT3.5
Someone else says "write code" and they mean React components and chatGPT4.
It is a mirror to how imprecise and intellectually lazy our own language and minds have become in the context of online discussion. Compressed thinking in order to fit in a twitter box along with years of being rewarded with attention the more muddled the thinking since the more people that disagree with the point the more responses it will generate.
It is like we have been running a giant language miscommunication RLHF model and the end result is an incredibly accurate system at creating miscommunication.
I tried asking it to write code to swap columns 1 and 3 of a CSV file, written in only x86 assembly. It refused, claiming that while it was theoretically possible, it would be stupid to do such a thing. It couldn't be persuaded...
