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Terse programming with ChatGPT

Beware terse code

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Dave Friedman
Jan 06, 2023
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ChatGPT is seductive. It seems like you can just give it a robust prompt and have it spit out sparkling code. But sometimes the code it spits out just throws errors. And this doesn’t just happen when you ask it to generate code. Here’s a good video explaining the issue:

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