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I did this experiment (a game) to see what's up and what's down around all this: https://github.com/romland/llemmings.

While there is some GPT4 in there, it's mostly ChatGPT and a small handful of LLaMA solutions.

That project is a contrived scenario and not realistic, but I wanted to experiment with _exactly_ what you are talking about.

Very often I could have done things a lot faster myself, but there is one aspect that was actually helpful, and I did not foresee it. When inspiration gets a bit low and you're not in the "zone"; throwing something into an LLM will very often give me a push to keep at it. Even if what is coming up is mostly grunt work.

The other day I threw together a script to show the commits in a reverse order and filter out (most of) the human commits (glue) over at https://llemmings.com/

Agreed. So far I've derived most benefit from ChatGPT by unblocking me when starting tasks and also giving overviews about things (much like an improved search engine).

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