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Over at his newsletter, The Diff, Byrne Hobart observes that Stack Exchange is shrinking. Hobart attributes the declined to ChatGPT:

Despite ChatGPT's popularity, there hasn't been a thorough investigation into the quality and usability of its responses to software engineering queries, said researchers from the Purdue University in the US.

ChatGPT's efficiency is now being questioned after it answered 52% of software engineering questions incorrectly.

Purdue University's study exposes ChatGPT's inaccuracies in answering software engineering questions, highlighting verbosity and conceptual errors despite user preference for its language style.

New York: OpenAI's ChatGPT answered about 52 per cent software engineering questions incorrectly, according to a study, raising questions about the

While the chatbot's answers to questions sound great, they're often wrong.

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Just in case you needed it spelling out, ChatGPT probably shouldnt be used for software engineering

Not long after it was released to the public, OpenAI's ChatGPT quickly turned into a powerful tool in the arsenal of programmers anywhere. With a single prompt, the chatbot effortlessly spits out code, dramatically speeding up workflows. But should software engineers really trust this output? In a new yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, researchers at Purdue University found […]