If I had a dollar for every time ChatGPT gave me code that worked but didn't do anything I asked it to, I would have $5. Not because its accurate, but because I only had the patience to correct its work 5 times.
ChatGPT is really good at telling me I'm a dumbass and to do it some other way when I ask why my code isn't working. I'll give it credit for that.
Boilerplate that I know by heart but can't be giving bothered to type? Sure.
Context specific, unique manipulations? Nah, in going in raw
I can't speak for GPT, but I usually let copilot take a first pass at things, then when I start to tweak them to fix Copilot's mistakes, the AI peer-codes it out with me pretty quick.
I've actually managed to get copilot to offer a valid solution to a problem that was cleaner than my own (though it took a few tries).
Dev AI's work and save time as long as you know what you're doing and aren't trying to lean on the AI to do all the coding.
I had a similar experience.
You know what's nice tho? Vscode copilot.
It gives auto complete suggestions like many systems already do. But it also learns from your script and suggests code in your style.
Even ignoring bad suggestions it's helped me a ton and paid for itself. Worth the $10.
My coworker asked for a script and I made it in an hour for him. Dude tried to call me out saying I had it already. Looks like at least a days worth of work.
"Nope. AI baby."
Most questions on SO these days are very specific so I doubt ChatGPT would be able to come up with good answers for those. All the easy questions have been answered long ago.
Especially since ChatGPT can't think of a new answer, right? It's working off data that's already somewhere online. It's just using predictive text based to determine the next word based on what users have typed. So most of these answers people get from "AI" are out there for these people to get from real people.
I swear, uninformed people who underestimate AI will be the death of us
Good thing every single programming line is already documented somewhere.
It doesn't need to think of new answers.
I disagree. I use chatgpt all the time where I'll tell it "here's my block of code" then "here's the error message I'm getting, how should I resolve this?" I could easily see it working for stack exchange questions. Chatgpt is useful because it's able to answer specific questions.
Of course there is some percentage of the time where it's completely wrong, but I'd put that under 20% for the questions I ask it. And you can tell it's wrong because the solution doesn't work, but if I'm not familiar with the subject matter I could waste a lot of time before I figure out why it's wrong.
If you look at new questions asked, there are a lot of easy to answer, low quality questions.
At least anon didn't downvote an question because he found that question "similar" to another "solved" question in stackoverflow.
Didn't GPT pull in StackOverflow as a source? Questions are probably repeats of existing or close enough.
I used to provide tech support by googling the answers, maybe my next venture is providing tech support via a fully automated ChatGPT?
As bad an idea as that would be, if real, it's still hard to underperform relative to SO.
Closed ss duplicate "link to completely unrelated questionr"
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