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Clive Thompson

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Mar 15, 2022 6:00 AM

It's Like GPT-3 but for Code--Fun, Fast, and Full of Flaws

OpenAI's new tool can autocomplete lines of programming or conjure
software from a simple prompt. It could also riddle the internet with
even more bugs.

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a crane and workers building code
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Clive Thompson (@pomeranian99) is a WIRED contributing editor and
author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the
World.
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