Programmers, beware: ChatGPT has ruined your magic trick | John Naughton

Well, that was 1990 and here we are, three decades later, with a mighty powerful bicycle. Quite how powerful it is becomes clear when one inspects how the technology (not just ChatGPT) tackles particular tasks that humans find difficult.

Writing computer programs, for instance.

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