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I'm going to hold a grudge against OpenAI et al for a long time. To steal a phrase, these tools are raising the noise floor of our perceptual environment… they're certainly doing it for me. And what am I getting out of it? Nothing! Absolutely no good is coming of it for me!

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For touchHLE in particular, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot and many other machine-learning-based systems are at best unhelpful, wasting my time with coherent-looking nonsense, and at worst sabotage the project by sneakily violating copyright. They actively make my life worse.

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if you want to learn programming, or really any skill: I wouldn't recommend these tools because they'll definitely give you bad advice without you being able to tell it's bad, and they can't explain themselves if they say something you don't understand, even if it looks like it.

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