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Ask HN: Is ChatGPT or Co-pilot making you more productive as a developer?
For me - not yet - maybe a little though, but I am trying both out.
ChatGPT I’m finding useful for more mundane programming sections (file access, content transforms etc)… interesting to see how much more productive it’s making others.
- speedgoose 4y agohttps://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3520312.3534864 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3520312.3534864 https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-copilots-impact-on-developer-productivity-and-happiness/ https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-c...
- edf13 4y agoInteresting- thanks
- jppope 4y agoyes, but just for the mundane stuff...
- oz5d 4y agoChatGPT is useful in less complex things, say I want to send a JSON Get request to my server using JQuery. I can easily ask and it returns right away. But as the difficulty rises the code it makes becomes more error-prone.
- ryandetzel 4y agoThis, I've been using it daily for small tasks instead of google and it's faster and better. "Write a mongo query in node that gets x,y,z and then returns only the q,w,e fields sorts by y" is one I just wrote. Since I don't write mongo queries often I forget the syntax
- VirusNewbie 4y agoNo, not yet. It's frustrating, I was hoping code completion would be much improved and it doesn't seem to be the case. I have high hopes that ChatGPT could help us DESIGN better libraries or programming languages though.
- thebigspacefuck 4y agoIt’s definitely at least $10 of productivity (a matter of minutes for most of us I’m guessing), so I will continue to subscribe.
- f0e4c2f7 4y agoIf you haven't tried it, use the GPT4 model. It's available now with the ChatGPT+ subscription. Significant improvement.
- swah 4y agoCopilot helps me with a function every other day, but I feel like its mostly me trying to have fun and test this thing. Curated snippets would be faster but this is so easy and adapts to the code around.
- apineda 4y agoNot enough to be game changing yet but for documentation on processes it has helped. Where I do enjoy using it is for learning though and digging into things that have always itched me but I could never bother to find the answers to ( due to slog of search/review cycle ). For example when reviewing history of math I would ask about where the word equation came from, and so on. I always liked to dig a bit beneath and teachers hated that! Not GPT :)
- majestic5762 4y agoSame. Copilot can get a bit useful after it understands your intent and starts hinting code from your codebase. Or sometimes i completely forget basic stuff like core functions, algos, patterns, and copilot jumps to help. ChatGPT excels at NLP, parsing or data transformations, but usually i use it for exploring general ideas and not necessarily for coding
- sharemywin 4y agoIt really excels when trying to learn new language.