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In my Python programming, I have found that ChatGPT makes me something like 10x more productive. From learning to use a new API to tracking debugging, and especially things finding errors in my code from stack traces. Getting results goes SO MUCH FASTER.

However, it has not alleviated any responsibility from me to be a good coder because I have question literally everything little dang thing suggests. If I am learning a new API, it can write code that works, but I need to go read the reference documentation to make sure that it is using the API with current best practices, for example. A lot of code I have to flat out ask it why it did things in a certain way because they look buggy inefficient, and half the time it apologizes and fixes the code.

So, I use the code in my (personal) projects copiously, but I don't use a single line of code that it generates that I don't understand, or it always leads to problems because it did something completely wrong.

Note that, at work, for good reasons, we don't use AI generated code in our products, but I don't write production code in my day job anyway.