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		giardini on March 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with som... Good question. Why don't we pit one of today's Python programmers against an IBM VS assembler programmer on an IBM 360 system circa 1960 and see how far each gets in a week?

aftbit on March 17, 2023 [–]

Let's make it more fair: what about one of today's Python programmers vs an IBM assembler programmer using Erlang/Elixir to develop a telephone switch?

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