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> Maybe someone with GPT-4 access can check if it has improved. But I find it essentially regurgitating its sources. My wife's a librarian in a teaching hospit
by ta1243 3y ago
> Maybe someone with GPT-4 access can check if it has improved. But I find it essentially regurgitating its sources.
My wife's a librarian in a teaching hospital. A recent senimar reported the same problem all over the country -- people coming in asking for papers which don't exist. Chat GPT is making up sources and quoting them. That's whatever version the free option at chat.openai.com, or whatever app someone downloads, uses.
> Granted, it does normie stuff pretty well, like writing a data class or making HTTP request.
I find it really handy to find useful libraries in an unfamiliar language. I needed to deal with some network addresses in python, it introduced me to the ipaddress module. I'm not a software developer, I certainly don't keep up with the latest developments (which I'd define as anything post matts-script-archive), so things like that are valuable.
- never_inline 3y ago> I find it really handy to find useful libraries in an unfamiliar language. I needed to deal with some network addresses in python, it introduced me to the ipaddress module. I'm not a software developer, I certainly don't keep up with the latest developments (which I'd define as anything post matts-script-archive), so things like that are valuable. That's correct. It has been many times helpful to me as well. But that's fundamentally because a google search for the same thing will be SEOd to death by blogspam sites listing top 100 python libraries.
- robryan 3y agoPython seems to suffer from this more than other languages. I guess because it is a popular beginner/ teaching language.
- pseudalopex 3y agoLibraries ChatGPT told me about were libraries I could have found faster with a search engine and libraries it made up. It can be handy if a library doesn't have examples though.
- sanderjd 3y agoI haven't found it to be as useful as searching for finding libraries, but I've found it to be way more useful for helping me explore how to use them.