AndrewThat people are taking ChatGPT seriously for coding tells you more about the state of software engineering as a discipline than it does about the state of machine learning as a technology.
D Ingram@andrewt software "engineering". I work with SW & systems engineers, and when it's done right it is engineering (functional specs, formal testing etc; Agile or waterfall doesn't matter). But a lot I've seen is also throwing stuff against a wall and seeing what sticks. ML seems to be that on steroids.