Scripting and things like ChatGPT

Since the arrival of ChatGPT coding can be done way faster.

I have a Unity and UE background. I prefer UE when it comes to graphics. I think UE is the future. The disadvantage of using UE is that it works mostly with Blueprints which is visual scripting.

With ChatGPT I can now develop projects in Unity in hours that would previously cost me days to weeks. It helps a lot that you can copy and paste the code that ChatGPT gives you and adjust it if you have to.

I know that a lot hardcore programmers don’t like this whole ChatGPT thing and want you to learn all the code by yourself. But ChatGPT does not only give you the code it gives you a very clear explenation of what the code is doing and why it is used.

I don’t know if UE is already working on implementing code functionality like c#. I know it has c++ now and you can do a lot with it. But it is cumbersome for simple tasks you want to write.

I think a lot of developers would benefit of a C# like scripting system in UE.

ChatGPT gives you a false sense of security and a narrow understanding of what you copy/pasted. Most seasoned software engineers frown at fledgling coders using it because you are hampering your own learning and development. Understanding of a snippet doesn’t teach you problem solving. And if you can’t problem solve smaller problems you definitely can’t problem solve big ones or build larger architecture.

TL:DR Stop drinking the koolaid and look at LLM like ChatGPT for what it is, assisted google searches. In the same way you shouldn’t copy paste code from Stack Overflow you shouldn’t copy paste code from ChatGPT that copy pasted it from Stack Overflow.

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