That sounds like pre optimization. In my opinion both things should happen in tandem. GPT4 is way, way above basic competency, I have no idea what you’re referring to.
By "competent", I mean pretty much what you would expect when you talk about a "competent programmer": A somewhat vague concept, yet fairly obvious when working with someone who whats up.
If you would judge GPT4 to be a competent programmer your experience is wildly different from mine. (I am not sure why you felt the need to put a "basic" in there in reference to what I wrote, since that is not what I wrote).
It is on the level of a novice programmer from a skill level, but the breath of knowledge is definitely compensating. It knows xpath as well as SQL as well as your favorite esoteric language.
It's pretty goood for me. It's saved me literally thosands of hours of work already. I ran a bunch of problems from Leetcode into it, and it got most of them right.
Here's the b+tree implementation it gave me. I haven't checked if it's right. But, I was just curious what it'd come up with.
