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My calculator has never given me a wrong answer, so I trust and use it. Every time I have used ChatGPT to solve a coding problem it has had missed important edge cases or been flat out wrong. I find most tasks significantly faster to do myself, but I have found inspiration in a wrong answer that ChatGPT has given me.

Maybe it's good at trivial stuff, but then I don't need it for trivial stuff so why use it then. This example is more like saying you'd use a calculator to solve (5 / 10) when it's faster to solve that yourself.

Now if I was just learning my times tables, sure I'd use ChatGPT, but once I've learned them it's not helping me on the basics anymore, and may be actively hindering me.

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