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FWIW, I don't disagree with your assertions. However, I would love to know more details about "My googling and stackoverflow usage for solving problems has pre

FWIW, I don't disagree with your assertions. However, I would love to know more details about "My googling and stackoverflow usage for solving problems has pretty much dropped to zero." I have found ChatGPT too unreliable to make a significant impact. I am worried I am bad at prompt engineering, but my excuses so far are: - It doesn't know my codebase and can't answer questions about business logic or context - It is slower for me to correct its mistakes when generating code I already know how to write, than to write it myself - It is often wrong in subtle ways when explaining code, concepts, or anything. Therefore it's unreliable when explaining "why is X happening in my code". At best it's a value add, not a value multiplier, when debugging.

gertlex 4y ago
This isn't the kind of work I do all the time, and is a mix of work + home automation setup; from the past couple weeks: - netboot grub menu syntax: amazing; this stuff is hard to google and chatgpt just knows it (mostly; couldn't get a few things working; not sure heredocs are actually supported) - dockerfile generation - docker-compose generation, from description of the services needed (grafana + prometheus); was easier to iterate on this (I have past experience) than to follow some guide out there that combines 10 related components - python scripts to push to prometheus. slam dunk - google's oauth2 api stuff for Nest device. slam dunk (most of my time went into googling my way through setting up the dashboard to get a refresh token) - I'm not using it with the actual work codebase (so, lately refactoring has felt especially painful) - Copilot did some nice work for me, for stuff I don't do often (sqlite3 migration writing), but probably going to cancel that subscription... Yeah, it can be wrong... I'm not a pure programmer type perhaps, but more of a systems/test integration guy, who troubleshoots the full stack. Troubleshooting chatGPT's goofs is basically equivalent to troubleshooting my coworkers' creations. I'm probably guilty of not pushing chatGPT hard enough. I've done a bunch of small things with it, to date. And it's saved me a bunch of time! When I'm fully awake/in the zone, yeah, coding things myself is faster. But if I'm tired but still want to make progress, chatGPT is more effective than staring at my text editor!

gertlex 4y ago

This isn't the kind of work I do all the time, and is a mix of work + home automation setup; from the past couple weeks: - netboot grub menu syntax: amazing; this stuff is hard to google and chatgpt just knows it (mostly; couldn't get a few things working; not sure heredocs are actually supported) - dockerfile generation - docker-compose generation, from description of the services needed (grafana + prometheus); was easier to iterate on this (I have past experience) than to follow some guide out there that combines 10 related components - python scripts to push to prometheus. slam dunk - google's oauth2 api stuff for Nest device. slam dunk (most of my time went into googling my way through setting up the dashboard to get a refresh token) - I'm not using it with the actual work codebase (so, lately refactoring has felt especially painful) - Copilot did some nice work for me, for stuff I don't do often (sqlite3 migration writing), but probably going to cancel that subscription... Yeah, it can be wrong... I'm not a pure programmer type perhaps, but more of a systems/test integration guy, who troubleshoots the full stack. Troubleshooting chatGPT's goofs is basically equivalent to troubleshooting my coworkers' creations. I'm probably guilty of not pushing chatGPT hard enough. I've done a bunch of small things with it, to date. And it's saved me a bunch of time! When I'm fully awake/in the zone, yeah, coding things myself is faster. But if I'm tired but still want to make progress, chatGPT is more effective than staring at my text editor!