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For me, ChatGPT also has a psychological benefit. It makes me feel like there’s someone that I can fall back on when I‘m stuck. It might be wrong (often the bot
by manmal 4y ago
For me, ChatGPT also has a psychological benefit. It makes me feel like there’s someone that I can fall back on when I‘m stuck. It might be wrong (often the bot is not super helpful), but this is not about rationality.
- OOPMan 4y agoYou should probably not be thinking about it in that way. Anthropomorphising statistical models is a bad idea...
- EugeneOZ 4y agoWe are anthropomorphizing NPCs in video games for decades - it's ok.
- manmal 4y agoOh I‘m not antropomorphising. It feels more like a GPS - a tool I wouldn’t like to be without when driving unknown places. I work mostly alone on projects, at least currently. While I have friends I can bounce back general ideas on, it‘s hard to get good feedback on a small problem that I‘d be stuck with for, let’s say, 5 minutes. So far, the choice has been between disrupting others‘ flow (who might not even work with the tech I‘m using), or exploring the issue myself. Problem solving is certainly not a skill I want to atrophy, but figuring out framework specific intricacies is more a chore than an interesting problem. A chore I can get stuck on. And that’s where the bot often points me in the right direction. An example: I‘m dabbling in the PETAL stack with a side project, and Ecto‘s DSL still feels foreign to me. ChatGPT is actually really good at fixing my Ecto queries and recently made the suggestion to use the „dynamic“ function. It applied the function in a slightly wrong way, but that made me read up dynamic query building, which is already bearing fruit. I could have read all of Ecto‘s documentation and wouldn’t need the bot, but that’s out of scope right now. I‘m currently working with native iOS, Android, JS/TS (Next), Flutter, and Elixir - if I read all the documentation, I wouldn’t write any code.
- taneq 4y agoYeah, they hate it.
- davesmylie 4y agoI'm finding ChatGPT may be wrong, but it's answers are often enough to point me in the right direction - particularly when I'm working in a new domain where I'm not yet experienced enough to be able to ask google the right questions. Previously I'd fall back to asking in a forum and getting a (tbf) much better answer a few hours or days later, but ChatGPT may be enough to point me in the right direction in a few minutes
- manmal 4y agoWell put, it’s really similar for me.
- stevesearer 4y agoI had this happen then I was stuck on a small side project that was slightly out of my wheelhouse. It wasn’t meaningful enough to spend a lot of time researching or to pay someone to solve it so I was just going to give up on it. Asked ChatGPT and it was able to unblock me by pointing me in the right direction. Now I have a working tool to solve a very specific problem of mine.
- adamsmith143 4y agoIf I'm at work and stuck on a problem I can hardly afford to wait around for a few days to be unblocked by a lucky forum answer.