There's no cat and no bag - just statistical sleight of hand. The people playing the trick know this, and are just collecting investor dollars while they can (and astroturfing every HN article that explains what it is). Relying on the output of chatgpt is no different than doing a rain dance and expecting it to rain.
I'd say it's more like relying on a minimum wage employee. It gets right (what I'm asking it to do) most of the time, but not always, and you gotta check up on it.
I don't understand why people act like it has to be 100% reliable to be useful.
Because if you need to check up on it, just do what you would do to check up on it in the first place. Coding is a very niche area where often you can tell if it is giving good answers. I think that's why HN people think it is so dope. In almost any other domain finding information from reliable sources is key, and chatgpt can't help with that at all.
