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That's just wrong, have you used GPT-4? Yes. A lot. Last I checked I can't ask Google to invent a new programming language specification for me I have litera
by 300bps 4y ago
That's just wrong, have you used GPT-4?
Yes. A lot.
Last I checked I can't ask Google to invent a new programming language specification for me
I have literally never done this in my job. Ever. I've been a professional software developer for multiple decades.
I then asked it to write a short tutorial for that language in the style of Learn X in Y minutes
So you can't Google, "Tutorial How to Learn X in Y minutes", get a result that has a completely viable format and details and then do the remaining 15% of the work to fill in your specific items?
I then asked it to write bubble sort in the new language and got a result
Do you know how many times I've written a bubble sort in my actual software profession?
The use cases you're bringing up is very typical of what people bring up with GPT-4. Contrived stuff without real-world application or something that is an evolutionary improvement on Google.
Overinflated claims of what GPT-4 can do causes real harm to our industry. There are business owners making decisions now based on the smoke and mirror demos that people are showing that has convinced them that they won't need developers in a few years. I literally met with a computer science major who was considering switching majors because of GPT-4.
Over the next decade, GPT-4 will be an amazing productivity enhancer for actual software engineers. Just like Google has been but with significant improvements.
- throwaway4aday 4y ago> There are business owners making decisions now based on the smoke and mirror demos that people are showing that has convinced them that they won't need developers in a few years If they aren't doing their due diligence on this then that's their problem. If my example isn't good enough then provide one of your own that you couldn't get to work.