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I tried to solve Day 3 of Advent of Code earlier and ChatGPT fell over completely - it sounded like it knew what it was doing but couldn't get the right solutio
by eddsh1994 4y ago
I tried to solve Day 3 of Advent of Code earlier and ChatGPT fell over completely - it sounded like it knew what it was doing but couldn't get the right solution. Day 1 was solved immediately though. I think the only thing that gives me hope programming isn't dying is that the best spec of a problem is the program so someone will still have to do requirements engineering etc, but maybe it'll move into systems engineering over traditional software development.
Anyone know how we, as tech workers, can keep on top of this so we're not useless in 5 years time?
- mfashby 4y agoLearn how to work with the AI, give it the right prompts, phrase the requirements in a way that gets what you need, train it occasionally, review it's code, pick it up when it falls over, massage it's ego occasionally...
- nso95 4y agoOr save time and just write the code
- acjacobson 4y agoIt solved Day 3, Part 1 for me almost instantly. It used the sample strings as opposed to the full input file, which makes sense because I didn't give it the full input. Modifying the generated code to handle the entire problem is low effort to extend yourself, so I was quite impressed. Regarding your question - my current guess is that you probably are going to need smart people to tell ChatGPT what to do and check that the output is sane. I expect this is where quite a bit of tech is going - at least most of the basic scaffolding.