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I haven't used GPT-3 to generate code for me but I use Copilot all the time. Sometimes it freaks me out with its precience, but most of the time it is generatin
by jeremyjh 4y ago
I haven't used GPT-3 to generate code for me but I use Copilot all the time. Sometimes it freaks me out with its precience, but most of the time it is generating either nice one-liners or a lot of plausible-sound rubbish that would never build, much less run on its own. It creates a plausible API that is similar to the one in my app, but not the same; it doesn't integrate any actual structural knowledge of the code-base, its just bullshitting.
- CamperBob2 4y agoAgain, the interesting part is what happens on the input side. I can't believe I'm the only person who sees it that way. Likely the legacy of a misspent youth writing Zork parsers...
- Cipater 4y agoIt's strange, isn't it? Everyone is so quick to say how unimpressed they are by the thing meanwhile I'm sitting here amazed that it understands what I say to it every single time. I can speak to it like I would speak to a colleague, or a friend, or a child and it parses my meaning without fail. This is the one feature that keeps me coming back to it.
- scarface74 4y agoThis is a script I told ChatGPT to write. “Write a Python script that returns a comma separated list of arns of all AWS roles that contain policies I specify with the “-p” parameter using argparse” Then I noticed there was a bug, AWS API calls are paginated and it would only return the first 50 results. “that won’t work with more than 50 roles” Then it modified the code to use “paginators” Yes, you can find similar code on StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66127551/list-of-all-roles-with-attached-policies-with-boto3 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66127551/list-of-all-rol... But ChatGPT met my specifications exactly. ChatGPT “knows” the AWS SDK for Python pretty well. I’ve used it to write a dozen or so similar scripts. Some more complicated than the others.
- jeremyjh 4y agoOk that actually sounds hugely useful. It makes sense for very well known APIs it will get them quite accurately.
- scarface74 4y agoI wonder how well it would work if you seeded it with the inputs and outputs of custom APIs and then tell it to write code based on your API.
- jeremyjh 4y agoWell I'd hope that is what is going on in Copilot. It definitely does seem to be trained on my code to some extent, but it doesn't have anything I'd call a semantic understanding of it.