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I don’t think GPT4 beats an expert yet. That’s why expectations to ask it to build a complex commercial project from scratch are not realistic.

Where it shines is up-levelling the developer in areas he is not an expert. Need to jump out of Java development and process some data in Python with a special library? It will likely be more than 10x speed up for you to ask GPT4 for help. Learning a functional language? It will send tons of best practices your way. It’s also great in translating ideas between domains, one example are your requirements to code, but also code to tests, data to SQL etc.

I’m happy with how helpful it is in exploring implementation concepts - you can discuss problems you imagine and it will improve the suggestions. A bit like a brainstom guide for you. And sometimes it will surprise you with a much simpler idea which you’ve been overthinking.

It’s really great when you don’t expect it to be perfect. It fails very often do to unclear commands (limited prompt „memory” is counter intuitively for humans limiting what can be understood - how can it not remember what you can see a bit to the top?). It will always try to do what you ask for, but if you assume it will know what you know you will be disappointed.