I’ve never tried to use it for formal verification. Does it work well for that? Is it smart enough to fix formal verification errors?
The place this approach falls down for me is in refactoring. Sure, you can get chatgpt to help you write a big program. But when I work like that, I don’t have the sort of insights needed to simplify the program and make it more elegant. Or if I missed some crucial feature that requires some of the code to be rewritten, chatgpt isn’t anywhere near as helpful. Especially if I don’t understand the code as well as I would have if I authored it from scratch myself.
The place this approach falls down for me is in refactoring. Sure, you can get chatgpt to help you write a big program. But when I work like that, I don’t have the sort of insights needed to simplify the program and make it more elegant. Or if I missed some crucial feature that requires some of the code to be rewritten, chatgpt isn’t anywhere near as helpful. Especially if I don’t understand the code as well as I would have if I authored it from scratch myself.