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I have been trying to work GPT into my coding workflow, and it's more like an enhanced google. But lately I have just been using Google / Stack Overflow again b

I have been trying to work GPT into my coding workflow, and it's more like an enhanced google. But lately I have just been using Google / Stack Overflow again because Google seems more able to return my intent based upon my short prompt than ChatGPT, which I have to coax to give what I want. LLMs are truly, truly amazing, but I don't think the "eliminates software engineering" is warranted. A productivity enhancement for sure, when used correctly and intelligently.

graycat 4y ago
> I have been trying to work GPT into my coding workflow, and it's more like an enhanced google. With one qualification, as in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35431789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35431789 I agree: "My Response: For some queries Chat may be a little better than Bing or Google."
kitsunesoba 4y ago
ChatGPT for me seems most useful for looking up things that are somewhat obscure or have documentation sparsely scattered across the web… the sort of thing you’d be less likely to even see asked about on SO, let alone answered. Its real value is in its (usually) intelligent synthesis of a coherent whole from many disparate parts that you would’ve been unlikely to come across all of on your own.
- Klaster_1 4y ago
  This reflects my recent experience with ChatGPT, I've am writing a TypeScript plugin been and use ChatGPT to learn about the API surface. For my particular task, the documentation basically doesn't exist and Stack Overflow answers are way scarce, the next best thing to ChatGPT was GitHub searching method names across repos to serve as examples.
- autonomousErwin 4y ago
  Similar case here - I've fallen into a personal rule of thumb: that if I'm after information that I can't easily verify or isn't on the tip of my tongue I'm likely to fall back to Google Search. This is either out of pure habit or an actual flaw in LLM's that in reality I'm not "surfing the internet", instead I'm "surfing the LLM" and I know this so eventually I'll hit an answer that's wrong (but the LLM has high confidence) and it's worth the extra couple of seconds on Google.
afro88 4y ago
Today it helped me make a data source object generic over a couple of uniquely constrained types, and flowed on those changes to other objects depending on it. Before then I was sitting scratching my head, wondering if I need to rewrite this part of my feature. It can work wonders if you give it some code and provide specific requirements. It's much more than just a "tell me how to X" machine. This was with the GPT4 model, which I find has much better results with code.

graycat 4y ago

> I have been trying to work GPT into my coding workflow, and it's more like an enhanced google. With one qualification, as in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35431789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35431789 I agree: "My Response: For some queries Chat may be a little better than Bing or Google."

kitsunesoba 4y ago

ChatGPT for me seems most useful for looking up things that are somewhat obscure or have documentation sparsely scattered across the web… the sort of thing you’d be less likely to even see asked about on SO, let alone answered. Its real value is in its (usually) intelligent synthesis of a coherent whole from many disparate parts that you would’ve been unlikely to come across all of on your own.

Klaster_1 4y ago
This reflects my recent experience with ChatGPT, I've am writing a TypeScript plugin been and use ChatGPT to learn about the API surface. For my particular task, the documentation basically doesn't exist and Stack Overflow answers are way scarce, the next best thing to ChatGPT was GitHub searching method names across repos to serve as examples.
autonomousErwin 4y ago
Similar case here - I've fallen into a personal rule of thumb: that if I'm after information that I can't easily verify or isn't on the tip of my tongue I'm likely to fall back to Google Search. This is either out of pure habit or an actual flaw in LLM's that in reality I'm not "surfing the internet", instead I'm "surfing the LLM" and I know this so eventually I'll hit an answer that's wrong (but the LLM has high confidence) and it's worth the extra couple of seconds on Google.

afro88 4y ago

Today it helped me make a data source object generic over a couple of uniquely constrained types, and flowed on those changes to other objects depending on it. Before then I was sitting scratching my head, wondering if I need to rewrite this part of my feature. It can work wonders if you give it some code and provide specific requirements. It's much more than just a "tell me how to X" machine. This was with the GPT4 model, which I find has much better results with code.