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Not them, but a short list based on my chat history: - Explained why a python variable in a closure was saying it was not assigned, after several minutes of go

Not them, but a short list based on my chat history: - Explained why a python variable in a closure was saying it was not assigned, after several minutes of googling/SO failed me (needed the nonlocal keyword, different from js) - Explained the difference in several slightly-different C++ lists, which I couldn't google because the differences were mostly special chars - Wrote working powershell code to output a list that has every string in $list1 that is not in $list2, on the first try, after I struggled for over an hour to do the same (and google/SO failed me). - Explained the difference between two batfiles for the Intel Fortran compiler after google failed me - Generated some really cool D&D statblocks -Unbeknownst to us players, generated a really creative heist dungeon that our DM ran us through (he thanked ChatGPT as his "co-DM" at the end). This one is particularly notable because the man works at a hiring agency, he's not exactly a techie.

orwin 4y ago
+1 for the DMing. I mostly use it to generate data for my dev/test tables, but the two times I used it for DMing, I gained hours. Also live when the player go somewhere really unexpected (it wasn't my campaign). Tangent: Google is less and less useful (as is SO for 'old' languages). I look into a mix of reddit, github issues, github code and SO depending on the issue. Hopefully this advice helps you if Chatgpt/copilot can't.
bnralt 4y ago
> after several minutes of googling/SO failed me ** > and google/SO failed me This is what I've been noticing as well. There have been many times when I spend 5-10 minutes trying to figure something out with Stack Overflow and Google, not getting anywhere, and then ChatGPT immediately gives me the answer. I'm not sure how anyone who considers Stack Overflow useful would think that ChatGPT is useless. Do I need to verify the answers? Sure. But I have to do the same thing with answers on Stack Overflow. Even if I'm using official documentation, I need to verify that what I think it's saying is what it's actually saying (particularly when it's as unclear as it often is). What's even more interesting is that I keep running into people who are finding completely different uses for it. The critique here is like a lot of other critiques I've seen. They seem to come from people who haven't spent much if any time working with it, but have read some articles about how it's not infallible and decided that meant it was junk (though this piece goes the extra mile when it hints that big GPU is behind it all). What's striking to me is the lack of intellectual curiosity on display.

orwin 4y ago

+1 for the DMing. I mostly use it to generate data for my dev/test tables, but the two times I used it for DMing, I gained hours. Also live when the player go somewhere really unexpected (it wasn't my campaign). Tangent: Google is less and less useful (as is SO for 'old' languages). I look into a mix of reddit, github issues, github code and SO depending on the issue. Hopefully this advice helps you if Chatgpt/copilot can't.

bnralt 4y ago

> after several minutes of googling/SO failed me ** > and google/SO failed me This is what I've been noticing as well. There have been many times when I spend 5-10 minutes trying to figure something out with Stack Overflow and Google, not getting anywhere, and then ChatGPT immediately gives me the answer. I'm not sure how anyone who considers Stack Overflow useful would think that ChatGPT is useless. Do I need to verify the answers? Sure. But I have to do the same thing with answers on Stack Overflow. Even if I'm using official documentation, I need to verify that what I think it's saying is what it's actually saying (particularly when it's as unclear as it often is). What's even more interesting is that I keep running into people who are finding completely different uses for it. The critique here is like a lot of other critiques I've seen. They seem to come from people who haven't spent much if any time working with it, but have read some articles about how it's not infallible and decided that meant it was junk (though this piece goes the extra mile when it hints that big GPU is behind it all). What's striking to me is the lack of intellectual curiosity on display.