About whether ChatGPT is intelligent, prompted by a git repo written entirely by it.
Has this happened?
Yes 97 (84%)Not sure 14 (12%)No 5 (4%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether ChatGPT is intelligent, prompted by a git repo written entirely by it.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
This idea that ChatGPT is "intelligent" is so absurd it's getting tiring. You do realize that the code you see regurgitated is most likely some permuted variant of a question/answer on Stack Overflow or a pull request on Github, right? ChatGPT can't even do basic categorization[1] reliably, but you think it can understand code?
[1] https://i.imgur.com/nw6rstc.png