I asked GPT4 to refactor a simple, working python script for my smart lights… and it completely butchered the code and apologized mid-generation.
No amount of pleading or correction would get it to function as it did just a week or two ago.
It is so over.
This wasn’t always this case. I had zero Python experience a month ago, and managed to make a 300 line Python script that checks credit card validation, and has a beautiful UI. This would be impossible today.
You said “beautiful” but I’m not sure you are using that word right.
Considering how long I’ve been using Python, and how it looked when I started, it is to me. And here is the ancient one I was previously using:
Somehow this looks better to me, possibly because of less redundancy (copy buttons aren’t needed when you have ctrl+c).
They had to make it too dumb to draw Disney Characters… you think I’m joking, try getting it to render a disney character in SVG or javascript…