Five days ago I wrote Reddit's future is exactly one of:
- They reverse their changes
- Their CEO resigns and they reverse their changes
- Within a week the site is no longer relevant, having completed a #Digg as everyone leaves
Looks like we're going for option #3.
It depends what you're wanting to do and what you define as 'cheating'? I'd expect you'd get better at debugging massive amounts of hallucinated code, but I don't think it'd generally improve your skills in software design/engineering/architecture. It might help you learn about breaking down software and integration though.