Chatbots powered by artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, are ready to speed up monotonous coding tasks and teach you new skills. We highlight, with worked examples, some advantages and limitations of using generative artificial intelligence for scientific coding and argue that if you are willing to debug, you can get a head start on more challenging tasks.
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C.M. and J.M.S.-D. were supported by NASA award 80NSSC 22K0883. C.M. and B.J.E. were supported by NSF awards 2225078 and 2225076. A.M.W. was supported by NASA awards 80NSSC21K1183 and 80NSSC21K0086. J.M.S.-D. acknowledges funding from ANR-21-CE32-0003
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Merow, C., Serra-Diaz, J.M., Enquist, B.J. et al. AI chatbots can boost scientific coding. Nat Ecol Evol 7, 960–962 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02063-3
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