Matt Wolfe (speaker) argues from experience that, currently, hand-coding is often faster than using ChatGPT because using the model requires substantial checking and debugging. He notes ChatGPT enabled a non-coder to build a JavaScript game by iteratively prompting the model, suggesting strong utility for non-coders even while experienced coders may find it more nuisance than help.
It's still actually faster to just code something than to use ChatGPT, because if you use ChatGPT, it'll write the code and then you spend just as much time double checking and debugging the code to get it to work. But for somebody who's never been able to code JavaScript, all I did was go, that didn't work. What do I try next? That didn't work. What do I try next? It took me hours to code the game, but I actually eventually got there without ever touching a line of code myself. I could see where there's excitement around it from non coders, but I can also see why coders would be like, ah, right now it's more of a nuisance than it is helpful.
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