A colleague recently asked me what I would do for a living once AI replaces computer programmers. After my initial (hopefully) witty answer, I began to wonder: How good is AI really at doing a programmer’s job? I had read about it, but never tried it myself. So I decided to put ChatGPT to the test.
In my test, I wanted to see if ChatGPT could do real programming. As I wrote before, programming is a creative task. How well would a computer be able to do it? Or would it just repeat examples from the Internet? I decided to interview ChatGPT, just like I would interview a new employee or student to see how experienced the candidate is in software development. Read on to see how well ChatGPT did in my interview.
