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[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago

It's not always right but it saves me tonnes of time at work, usually when I want to do something simple in a language or environment I'm not totally familiar with.

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

It can reliably copy the simple things in it's training data from stackoverflow.

But at that point, why not just go to stackoverflow instead?

[-] DrCake@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

I find that sometimes I can’t quite describe the problem well enough for google to find results. The conversational nature of ChatGPT means I usually can get a good enough answer from it

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

I'm not saying it's going to take anyone's job anytime soon but it's a lot quicker to get something tailor made for your problem than going to stack overflow. Everyone should use the tools that work for them but don't sleep on this stuff, like any tool it's really helpful once you know how to use it.

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago

Agreed. But I think it is utterly useless if you aren't experienced enough to tell if it is bullshitting. Almost every time I have asked for a little adjustment, it just makes something up that looks good on first glance. My favorite is when it invents python libraries that magically handle all the difficult stuff. But man is it useful for my crappy little bash scripts or regex.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Absolutely true. I think regex might be one of my favourite uses to be honest. Both in writing them and explaining wth an existing one is doing.

[-] TheunamusedFox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

Gpt4 is pretty awesome for simple stuff. I've just started learning python (Knowing no other language) and made my first project a pyqt GUI for editing the config of a FOSS project. It's reasoning ability is not great, but when you clearly lay out what you want to do, how you want to do it, it because a fantastic natural language to code interpreter. All the fiddly bits I dread typing out I just pop into gpt 3.5, and more complicated stuff gpt4.

I have learned a lot from debugging whenever it gets stuck, and being able to create an actual usable program right from the start is awesome.

Even better is slowly realizing you are understanding what's going on, and the dread of actually studying to learn the language becomes a genuine desire to learn more.

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 7 months ago

It has encouraged my colleagues to get answers from it that would be easily available with a google search (and by asking me - my fault for acting like they are a pita for not extrapolating from previous explanations). Resulting in:

  1. Trying to sudo apt install on a RHEL system
    • Looking for an apt RPM package on the internet
  2. Looking for RPM packages of almost every unavailable thingy on the internet.
  3. In general, succeeding 90% at a task (not 90% of the times, but 90% part of it) and going with it. Only to later realise the remaining 10% invalidated all their effort.
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2024
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