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ChatGPT generally goes into a lot of details about its decisions, and provides detailed explanations. You still have to fact-check it, or verify by running the
by pcthrowaway 4y ago
ChatGPT generally goes into a lot of details about its decisions, and provides detailed explanations. You still have to fact-check it, or verify by running the code, because it will make mistakes, but if that happens you can say "Hey, this isn't quite right because ..., how do I actually do this" and it will usually figure it out.
As a software dev of 10 years, I've done the "googling and reading documentation" a fair bit, which is kind of like stumbling around in the dark and feeling around to get a sense of where things are. For some well-defined, well-documented things, using ChatGPT to do the same is like having having an overconfident junior-intermediate dev to pair with who's familiar in a stack that I'm not. I still have to guide it a fair bit, and adjust my expectations to account for that overconfidence. But it can absolutely guide me as well, and teach me new things.
- burkaman 4y agoYeah that makes sense, I'm just saying that if you didn't have 10 years of experience, you might not know how to guide it and might not notice when it doesn't seem quite right, and end up learning a lot less than you could. It's a little bit like "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket". We do always have a calculator these days, but it's still useful to know how to do arithmetic so you can do things in your head, and notice if an answer doesn't make sense because you made a typo or something. Maybe in the future we'll all have chatGPT running locally on our phones or brain interfaces or whatever and be able to quickly train it on new datasets, but even then it will still be useful to know how to do things yourself.