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“And that’s not surprising, because GPT-3 doesn’t actually know anything about anything at all.”

Simon Willisonsimonwillison.net ↗

GPT-3 explains a gnarly regex and a JavaScript polyfill better than most documentation. Then it confidently claims a subquery beats a LEFT JOIN, which is wrong. The danger is the confidence. A junior developer can’t tell the right answer from the wrong one, and the tool sounds identical either way.