How ChatGPT Outperformed a Novice Programmer (Real Story)

A few months ago, I needed to delete stale branches from a Git repository. I assigned this task to a beginner who struggled for three working days but eventually took a victory. I must admit that I had never written bash scripts longer than a few lines, but I was confident anyone could handle the task in a day.

The need for cleanup arose again recently. The beginner had been fired due to expense cuts but left a bash script that was supposed to do the job. However, the script expected an input file with a list of branches, so I had…