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Can you go into more depth about >I don't really know Typescript, so I've been using it a lot to supplement my learning, but I find it really hard to accept an
by _boffin_ 4y ago
Can you go into more depth about
>I don't really know Typescript, so I've been using it a lot to supplement my learning, but I find it really hard to accept any of its answers that aren't straight code examples I can test.
- How are you using it?
- What are the questions you're asking it?
- What are your thoughts about the answers and how are you cross checking them?
Edit:
>If you don't know the subject, how can you be sure what it's telling you is true? Do you vet what ChatGPT tells you with other sources?
I can't, but i can take a look at books i have or search google to find additional sources.
To me, the biggest power of it is to help me understand and build mental models of something new.
- georgebcrawford 4y agoThey asked you questions too, y’know…
- _boffin_ 4y agoGuess my brain skipped over that part. Thanks for pointing that out -- updating my answer
- yoyohello13 4y agoAt this point I generally stick to specific small problems like "How can I write a script to convert a Product from the Stripe API into my custom interface?" or "How do I do this thing in SQL". I trust these answers because I can verify by reading and running the actual code. For more open ended questions I tend to treat it more like a random comment in a forum. For example, I often notice that Typescript code examples don't use the `function` keyword often, they tend to use anonymous functions like `const func = () => blah`. I asked ChatGPT why this is and it gave a plausible answer, I have no idea if what it's saying is true, but it seemed true enough. I give the answer the same amount of trust as I would some random comment on Stack Overflow. The benefit of Stack Overflow though is at least you know the reputation of the person you're talking to.