Yeah I agree with all that. I've been trying to think of an analogy. Maybe in the same way that spreadsheets didn't make accounts obsolete?

I agree, but is that opinion controversial? Seems patently obvious after talking to it about coding for a few minutes. Maybe it's controversial among people who have fooled themselves into thinking it's thinking?

I've tried quite a few times to get it to help with a problem I've been thinking about for a while. Every time it says it understand and then writes code that shows it doesn't understand at all and violates every constraint I give it.

Not surprising but it does point to a lot of contamination & regurgitation of the training material fooling people into thinking it's intelligent