How GPT is the equivalent for programming

It took me a year to realize that GPT for programming is the equivalent of a calculator in math. I believe this analogy applies well to other areas too. At first, I thought GPT would replace programmers completely. But then I started using it and realized that, yes, in theory, you could prompt it to write an entire program for you. However, that would probably take ten times longer than coding it yourself. Doing it entirely yourself might be faster if you had unlimited focus, but it would be extremely exhausting. This is why I think of it as a calculator equivalent. Imagine a mathematician 100 years ago trying to create a new theorem. Without a calculator, he would need to stop at the most basic tasks, like doing simple arithmetic, which would slow him down. While a calculator can help with that, it would never be able to work out the theorem by itself completely. It's the same for programming. You need to do the work yourself, keep track of what's going on, and know where you want to go with your code and how it should look in the end. But you don’t have to code every single loop yourself. For that, you use the bot. This way, you progress much faster, like the mathematician using the calculator who no longer needs to pause to compute the square root of 1456. #genai #ai #programming #coding #gpt