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>>Josely+(OP)
This is a bit off topic to the actual article, but I see a lot of top ranking comments complaining that ChatGPT has become lazy at coding. I wanted to make two observations:

1. Yes, GPT-4 Turbo is quantitatively getting lazier at coding. I benchmarked the last 2 updates to GPT-4 Turbo, and it got lazier each time.

2. For coding, asking GPT-4 Turbo to emit code changes as unified diffs causes a 3X reduction in lazy coding.

Here are some articles that discuss these topics in much more detail.

https://aider.chat/docs/unified-diffs.html

https://aider.chat/docs/benchmarks-0125.html

>>anothe+Pf
Lazy coding is a feature not a bug. My guess is that it breaks aider automation, but by analyzing the AST that wouldn't be a problem. My experience with lazy coding, is it omits the irrelevant code, and focuses on the relevant part. That's good!

As a side note, i wrote a very simple small program to analyze Rust syntax, and single out functions and methods using the syn crate [1]. My purpose was exactly to make it ignore lazy-coded functions.

[1]https://github.com/pramatias/replacefn/tree/master/src