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The failure mode seemed similar in all three languages. If you were doing toy things, or writing boilerplate stuff, it did perfectly fine. If you were writing something that wasn't a slightly-modified copy of some code that already exists out there, it fell apart. I don't think the issue is the language in this case — Go and Rust are common enough, and it rarely had trouble with the syntax — I think it's that the model doesn't go very "deep", so it's able to reproduce common patterns with minor variations but is unable to conceptualise.


Java is ultimately worse. It's old. It's gone through A LOT of change over the years. How does it even tell what's good and bad? Java also has lots of convention over configuration and "magic" in most frameworks, which it doesn't exactly understand.

When I tried it I'd often have to go back to it and keep telling it to use a different way of doing things because the world moved on. By that time there wasn't much point.

I see praises by those that have never coded in a language. They try ChatGPT, see it produce "ok" output and call it a day. If that's where we're going the web will be even more bloated than Electron and everything will be 10x worse. It's like low code but even lower (in quality).




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