What do you think about using Chat GPT to create functions in D? I asked Chat-GPT to create a function in D that was similar to the rsplit() function in Python. It returned this code to me:

import std.algorithm;
import std.array;
import std.string;

string[] rsplit(string input, string separator, size_t maxsplit = size_t.max) {
auto splitter = splitter(input, separator, SplitterFlag.all);
auto results = splitter.array;
if (maxsplit < results.length - 1)
results = results[results.length - maxsplit - 1 .. $];
return results;
}

I once tested ChatGPT to generate Common Lisp code (a simple Redis client). They had a warning that this is not a code generation tool nevertheless it tried to do so. All the code it had was incorrect: it imported foreign libraries that didn't exist and when I complained about it, it apologized and then proposed other libraries that didn't exist. Overall I had the impression that I'm working with some dumb person who pasted me stuff from stackoverflow that seemed to solve my issue.

Let me mention that I once asked ChatGPT what is 11 plus 11 and when it responded 22, I told it that it's wrong, it should be 30. It apologized and said that I'm right, it's 30. I tried to do the same experiment again after one day to show off my friends, but it became more resilient to such suggestions.

On Monday, 3 April 2023 at 23:38:52 UTC, Marcone wrote:

Well you can use GitHub Copilot in VSCode, and it is kind of interesting but at the current time seems like a distracting waste of time. It will probably get more useful in a few years.

LLMs repeats commonly accepted lies as gospel, so do not expect a well adjusted human-like opinion on anything.

On Monday, 3 April 2023 at 23:38:52 UTC, Marcone wrote:

Recently, it helped me figure out an OpenGL task using d.

This is the code it suggests after I provide some details to it about the case and the error I get:
```d
Slice!(RCI!ubyte, 3LU, Contiguous) plot2imslice() @nogc nothrow
{
    import mir.rc;

    Slice!(RCI!ubyte, 3LU, Contiguous) imgslice = rcslice!ubyte([height, width, 3], 0);

    glfwMakeContextCurrent(_glfwWindow);

    // create and bind framebuffer
    GLuint fbo;
    glGenFramebuffers(1, &fbo);
    glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, fbo);

    // create and bind texture
    GLuint texture;
    glGenTextures(1, &texture);
    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture);
    glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGB, width, height, 0, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, null);
    glFramebufferTexture2D(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture, 0);

    // render scene to framebuffer
    glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, fbo);
    // render your scene here

    // read pixel data from framebuffer
    glReadPixels(0, 0, width, height, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, imgslice.ptr);

    // flip image vertically
    for (size_t y = 0; y < height / 2; y++) {
        for (size_t x = 0; x < width; x++) {
            // swap rows
            swap(imgslice[y][x], imgslice[height - y - 1][x]);
        }
    }

    // unbind framebuffer and cleanup
    glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, 0);
    glDeleteTextures(1, &texture);
    glDeleteFramebuffers(1, &fbo);

    return imgslice;
}
```

And this is the code after required modifications:
```d
auto plot2imslice() @nogc nothrow
    {
        import mir.rc;

        Slice!(RCI!ubyte, 3LU, Contiguous) imgslice = rcslice!ubyte([height, width, 3], 0);

        glfwMakeContextCurrent(_glfwWindow);

        // create and bind framebuffer
        GLuint fbo;
        glGenFramebuffers(1, &fbo);
        glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, fbo);

        // create and bind texture
        GLuint texture;
        glGenTextures(1, &texture);
        glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture);
        glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGB, width, height, 0, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, null);
        glFramebufferTexture2D(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture, 0);

        // render scene to framebuffer
        glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, fbo);

        // render scene here
        render();

        // read pixel data from framebuffer
        glReadPixels(0, 0, width, height, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, imgslice.ptr);

        import mir.utility : swap;
        // flip image vertically to correct generated image
        foreach (y; 0..height / 2) {
            each!swap(imgslice[y], imgslice[height - y - 1]);
        }
        // unbind framebuffer and cleanup
        glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, 0);
        glDeleteTextures(1, &texture);
        glDeleteFramebuffers(1, &fbo);

        return imgslice;
    }
```

This comment of chatGPT saved the day :) // render your scene here