I used it to make this post here, updating some R code. My observations:
- it still put me in an error loop because it overcomplicated the code, and I had to eventually brute-force it instruction by instruction.
- it did a much better job of explaining its coding decisions than chatGPT. I mean, significantly better.
- it genuinely surprised me when I suggested we debug line by line; it gave some starting code, and then asked me to report back the output. ChatGPT often suggests tests, but then essentially says “you can check the results this way” rather than (effectively) collaborating.
I’ll use it in the future; still not turnkey, but much better.