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Chat GPT and friends are best when you tell it to write code from scratch, even then it's only good for straight forward tasks.

Give it existing code to work with, particularly a larger code base and things get weird.

Still, I love it for hacking out small prototypes. If you don't really care about performance or best practice, it's ok.



ChatGPT4 It won't accept moderately large files that I have given it. It was actually just an HTML file, I wanted to ask about css in it. How have you managed to give it a "larger codebase"?


By just giving it code files one by one.

By larger I'm talking about maybe 5 or 6 files.

Or to be honest Chat GPT isn't good when your fixing code that already exists.




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