I haven’t tried this yet, but I have a feeling that it would fail for anything nontrivial. Nevertheless, the concept is very interesting, and as soon as I get API access to GPT-4, I will try it.

I’ve recently ported a library from TypeScript to Python with the help of ChatGPT (GPT-4), and it took me about a day. It would be interesting to run this tool on the same codebase and compare the results.

If anyone has GPT-4 API access, I would really appreciate if they tried running this tool on something simple, and wrote about the result in the comments.

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    1 year ago

    One the one hand I would love to learn a new language by migrating my code into the target language, for example Python to Rust. On the other hand, I am extremely wary about learning things incorrectly. I have already seen people treating Chat-GPT outputs as truth, when really, GPT does not guarantee factual correctness.

    Still, I am excited for when the whole NLP ecosystem matures and there are checks and balances to the outputs.