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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’
by 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 agoThis 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 agoSimilar 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.