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> People seem to be forgetting that in the vast majority of cases the thing ChatGPT is giving you is also available on stackoverflow, github, wikipeida, or 101

> People seem to be forgetting that in the vast majority of cases the thing ChatGPT is giving you is also available on stackoverflow, github, wikipeida, or 101 other high quality online sources. No one is forgetting anything over here. With StackOverflow, I have to scroll through ~2 pages of bing/google trash to even begin looking at a potential solution. This is only the beginning of the process. 99% of the time, the code sample I find has some simple-yet-annoying adjustments I'd like to make (i.e. unroll the inner loop & use SIMD). Certainly, I could spend half my afternoon massaging that method on my own. Or, I could reach for the circular saw and rip through this board in a few seconds. Sure - it leaves a bit of a rough edge most of the time, but it gets you a lot closer a lot faster than anything else in my experience.

mjburgess 4y ago
Sure, but is turning 90min of googling into 5min + 30min of rewriting, "revolutionary" ? When you're googling and reading, you're doing the work of building your understanding. That's shifted in the GPT case to afterwards. It's an advance; it's not nothing. Does it reduce the need to actually understand what you're writing -- no. That's most of the time anyway
- bob1029 4y ago
  > is turning 90min of googling into 5min + 30min of rewriting, "revolutionary" ? I'd say so, yes. The side effect of an arbitrary feature going from 90 minutes to 35 minutes is that I am much more likely to consider features that I'd otherwise not. I am working on a computer vision project right now that I would have never started without having this kind of access to the various algorithms. Go try to implement a sobel filter in your preferred language using traditional research, and then try it with AI assistance. I think you will start to see the light after going through a few methods like this.

mjburgess 4y ago

Sure, but is turning 90min of googling into 5min + 30min of rewriting, "revolutionary" ? When you're googling and reading, you're doing the work of building your understanding. That's shifted in the GPT case to afterwards. It's an advance; it's not nothing. Does it reduce the need to actually understand what you're writing -- no. That's most of the time anyway

bob1029 4y ago
> is turning 90min of googling into 5min + 30min of rewriting, "revolutionary" ? I'd say so, yes. The side effect of an arbitrary feature going from 90 minutes to 35 minutes is that I am much more likely to consider features that I'd otherwise not. I am working on a computer vision project right now that I would have never started without having this kind of access to the various algorithms. Go try to implement a sobel filter in your preferred language using traditional research, and then try it with AI assistance. I think you will start to see the light after going through a few methods like this.