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However, my issue is that more than once, ChatGPT has suggested code to me that could likely …

… However, my issue is that more than once, ChatGPT has suggested code to me that could likely introduce a security issue in a product had someone been dumb enough to blindly copy and paste. If this were a code snippet on a website, I'd probably drop a comment or just remember to ignore whatever I found on that website in the future. So I get why Chomsky isn't impressed, once accuracy really matters ChatGPT falls on its face. When it comes to generating fluff like marketing copy, jokes and other things that don't require any degree of accuracy, it's amazingly good.

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I tried to use ChatGPT to explore parser library for Rust called nom. Nothing worked. Syntax was wrong. Midway I resorted to googling and after a short while I learned why. The library had a major overhaul at one point. They switched from using macros to using functions. ChatGPT didn't notice that and served what was mixture of old and new syntax.

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In my experience, ChatGPT is a terrible search engine. It's good at the other things you listed though.

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