I find GPT4 to be super useful at such tasks that can be very well specified and rather narrow. Treat it like a sidekick. Still makes mistakes and can be tedious but overall tends to be much faster than working on your own.

Life is good

I built latextai.com to make it possible to do this directly inside Overleaf - you can edit your LaTeX and GPT-4 has context of your document! So it makes this kind of use-case even more powerful.

I paste performance critical methods I write into ChatGPT and ask it “can you do this more efficiently?” Normally it can. I love it. The advantage of doing this is that the whole hallucination thing is avoided. Unlike Copilot which often writes garbage.

It's like if you had a tool box with a bunch of stuff in, but no crescent wrenches. You could certainly do some everything without them. But having a tool that does some stuff perfectly, is just amazing

gpt4 is very very good at latex stuff lol

When you know what needs to be done and can be specific GPT4 can save so many hours of struggle it's baffling

GPT4 is the way

It's very very bad at Mathematica, though. Would be a great project for Wolfram to pound out, a plugin or llama2 fine-tuning for their DSL.

One of the best things about asking chatGPT code questions is that you can ask if it is sure about a step and it will refine and often refactor it.