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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If it spits out the wrong syntax my compiler will tell me immediately.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    While I never had it happen, it could give you wrong command line switches that do damage. For example, when I asked how I could list volumes attached to an AWS instance, it gave me a "modify-volume" command instead of "describe-volume" command. Thankfully, I caught that before I cut and paste it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    It's bad enough at programming that you can often see the problems without the help of the compiler

    Last thing I asked it for, after the fourth draft still had undeclared variables and called imaginary libraries (which if they existed would be great)

    It was good for coming up with a nice structure for a small program

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