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You're saying, "if you need to know a hard fact, just Google it", but at the same time saying "I'm exploring and learning other programming languages at a crazy
by ZephyrBlu 4y ago
You're saying, "if you need to know a hard fact, just Google it", but at the same time saying "I'm exploring and learning other programming languages at a crazy rate".
Those are somewhat contradictory to me. Information about programming languages are hard facts.
If it translates your code into another language how do you know it's using best practices? How do you know there aren't subtle bugs in its translation? Is it using modern syntax?
I don't really see much value unless in "exploring" another language like this. Basic data structures, control flow and logical operators are very similar in all languages.
If it could show me modern syntax following best practices that is correct then that would be insanely useful, but there's no way to know whether it's showing you junk or not.
- jononor 4y agoA difference between ChatGPT and Google in this scenario is that Google cannot really synthesise or compose facts/knowledge together. These giga language models are decent at this, if anything they do it a bit too well/much, putting vaguely/somewhat but not quite right things together alot of the times. Which probably has some uses...
- insanitybit 4y ago> but there's no way to know whether it's showing you junk or not. My experience so far is that it's light on junk, and the junk is really obvious.