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Thank you.

I am not a programmer and only know some very rudimentary HTML and Java. After hearing everyone enthuse about how they use ChatGPT for everything, I thought that I could use it to generate a page that I thought sounded simple enough. Gist of it was that I needed 100 boxes of the same dimensions that text could be inputted into. I figured that it'd be faster with AI than with me setting up an excel sheet that others would have to access.

Instead, the AI kept spitting out slightly-off code, and no matter how much reiterations I did it did not improve. Had I known the programming language, I would have known what needed to be changed. I think that a lot of highly experienced people are using it as a short-hand to get started, and a lot of inexperienced people are going to use it to produce a lot of shoddy crap. Anyone relying on ChatGPT that doesn't already know what they're doing is setting themselves up for failure.



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