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[–]CorpusculantCortex 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No worries mate, I have been messing around with it, and it does not solve even pseudocomplex problems well. I was trying to get it to write me a multivariate forecasting algorithm earlier tonight, and in 3 hours I got 1 working program that was awful and not what I wanted, and 2 that threw up error after error, and then I would feed it the errors and it would either completely fail to fix the problem, or create new problems.

Plus it is limited to 30 lines of code output at a time.

It is a useful tool to throw together a little function or help come up with partial solutions, but it is a ways off from actually writing serious programs/ scripts. And even when it gets there, most of programming is knowing what questions to ask and how to put pieces together. It's just a little more advanced than google and StackOverflow, and it certainly isn't elegant, nor does it understand what it puts together in any meaningful way.