How good is AI at programming? Better than humans?

Question

Here's an example, which chat-gpt 4.0 wrote for me:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
import csv
import time

# Set up Selenium WebDriver (adjust the path to your chromedriver)
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')  # Run in headless mode
service = Service('path/to/chromedriver')  # Replace with your path to chromedriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=chrome_options)

url = 'https://www.lukiegames.com/snes-super-nintendo-video-games.html'
driver.get(url)

# Give time for the page to load
time.sleep(5)

# Find all game entries
games = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, '#searchspring-content > div > div.ss__results.ss__results--grid > article')

# Open CSV file for writing
with open('video_games.csv', 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as file:
    writer = csv.writer(file)
    writer.writerow(['Title', 'Price'])

# Iterate through each game entry
    for game in games:
        title_elem = game.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'p.ss__result__name > a')
        price_elem = game.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'p.ss__result__pricing > span.ss__result__price.ss__result__price--on-sale')
        
        title = title_elem.text.strip() if title_elem else 'No title'
        price = price_elem.text.strip() if price_elem else 'No price'
        
        print(f"Title: {title}, Price: {price}")  # Debugging output
        writer.writerow([title, price])

driver.quit()
print("Scraping complete. Data saved to video_games.csv")

Seems very useful, Here is the result:
Title: Tiny Toon Adventures Buster Busts Loose, Price: On Sale: $7.97
Title: Super Scope 6, Price: On Sale: $4.47
Title: Donkey Kong Country 2, Price: On Sale: $22.97
Title: WWF Super Wrestlemania, Price: On Sale: $6.97
Title: Bulls vs. Blazers, Price: On Sale: $5.97
Title: Madden NFL 95, Price: On Sale: $2.47
Title: Taz-Mania, Price: On Sale: $7.97
Title: Super Caesar's Palace, Price: On Sale: $7.47
Title: NHL Stanley Cup, Price: On Sale: $2.97
Title: NFL Quarterback Club, Price: On Sale: $2.97
Title: NBA Live 96, Price: On Sale: $2.97
Title: Chrono Trigger, Price: On Sale: $282.97
Title: Super Mario World, Price: On Sale: $24.97
Title: Super Mario Kart, Price: On Sale: $34.44
Title: Star Fox, Price: On Sale: $13.97
Title: Lethal Enforcers, Price: On Sale: $10.47
Title: WWF Royal Rumble, Price: On Sale: $12.97
Title: Tecmo Super Bowl, Price: On Sale: $10.47
Title: Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, Price: On Sale: $28.47
Title: Super Mario All-Stars, Price: On Sale: $24.47
Title: NFL Football, Price: On Sale: $4.47
Title: Road Runner's Death Valley Rally, Price: On Sale: $7.97
Title: Seaquest DSV, Price: On Sale: $9.97
Title: F1 Pole Position, Price: On Sale: $9.97
Title: Suzuka 8 Hours, Price: On Sale: $6.97
Title: Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball, Price: On Sale: $4.97
Title: Mario's Time Machine, Price: On Sale: $12.97
Title: Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday, Price: On Sale: $9.97
Title: Legend of Zelda a Link to the Past, Price: On Sale: $49.97
Title: Paperboy 2, Price: On Sale: $11.97
Title: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Price: On Sale: $17.97
Title: Jurassic Park, Price: On Sale: $9.47

Liam Tim · Accepted Answer

Here is what I asked AI to do: Write a web scraper using Python and BeautifulSoup. Sample Target: https://www.lukiegames.com/snes-... Rationale: Scrape the video game titles and prices of all the games on the target page. CSS selectors are as follows: 1. Title: #searchspring-content > div > div.ss__results.ss__results--grid > article:nth-child(1) > div > div > p.ss__result__name > a 2. Price: ##searchspring-content > div > div.ss__results.ss__results--grid > article:nth-child(1) > div > div > p.ss__result__pricing > span.ss__result__price.ss__result__price--on-sale Output: Save all the Titles and Prices for all the video games in a CSV file Additional Instructions: Handle character encoding and remove undesirable symbols in the output CSV.

How good is AI at programming? Better than humans?

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