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Nerd-snipe and useful? That’s the holy grail! We’re having fun and we’re solving real problems that we have. Amazing. I’ve already incorporated it into my publ

by Swizec 4y ago

Nerd-snipe and useful? That’s the holy grail! We’re having fun and we’re solving real problems that we have. Amazing. I’ve already incorporated it into my publishing process. My home-grown “cms” uses ChatGPT (via API) to write my article description, draft a twitter thread, and craft a “viral insight”. The latter is mostly useful to make sure my article even makes a point. Hoping to use it for a related articles feature next. I’m also building a chatbot based on my content.

javajosh 4y ago
> Nerd-snipe and useful? That’s the holy grail! Yes. i think its a good software product! Maybe one of the best there ever was - I'm not surprised Sam Altman jumped the YC ship for this one, or that MS is particularly interested it. It gets ignored in all the other bru-haha but I'm excited to see what the really talented software teams of the world will be able to accomplish with an AI coding assisstent - and I don't mean just in the world of AI. The activation energy for new software lowered by about 30% overnight, which is outrageously cool, and of course disquieting.
- zamnos 4y ago
  Especially for new software in a different language than you already know or haven't used years, in a realm other than your current area of expertise. It's pretty useful to be able to directly ask it how do to, eg basic string manipulation in $new_language, but even more convenient is to ask it to do the transformation for you. "Given a string of the format X, write a $language snippet that outputs X'." It'll do more advanced things than that, but that's one area I found it to be useful and time-saving in an unfamiliar language because it saves me from looking up that boilerplate before getting to the part where I throw a regexp at the problem.

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Nerd-snipe and useful? That’s the holy grail! We’re having fun and we’re solving real problems that we have. Amazing. I’ve already incorporated it into my publ

by Swizec 4y ago

javajosh 4y ago
> Nerd-snipe and useful? That’s the holy grail! Yes. i think its a good software product! Maybe one of the best there ever was - I'm not surprised Sam Altman jumped the YC ship for this one, or that MS is particularly interested it. It gets ignored in all the other bru-haha but I'm excited to see what the really talented software teams of the world will be able to accomplish with an AI coding assisstent - and I don't mean just in the world of AI. The activation energy for new software lowered by about 30% overnight, which is outrageously cool, and of course disquieting.
- zamnos 4y ago
  Especially for new software in a different language than you already know or haven't used years, in a realm other than your current area of expertise. It's pretty useful to be able to directly ask it how do to, eg basic string manipulation in $new_language, but even more convenient is to ask it to do the transformation for you. "Given a string of the format X, write a $language snippet that outputs X'." It'll do more advanced things than that, but that's one area I found it to be useful and time-saving in an unfamiliar language because it saves me from looking up that boilerplate before getting to the part where I throw a regexp at the problem.