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Top tips: * If you can write it from memory, go ahead and do so. Do not consult GPT-4 * If you know what to do but need to look a few things up - put your bes
by june_twenty 3y ago
Top tips:
* If you can write it from memory, go ahead and do so. Do not consult GPT-4
* If you know what to do but need to look a few things up - put your best effort into GPT-4. It will flesh it out
* If you're using a library that is new, you can copy paste the library examples into GPT-4 and then describe what you want to do. It will give a great starting point
- FpUser 3y ago>"If you can write it from memory, go ahead and do so." I know how to for example divide and multiply on paper. Still I use calculator for that.
- staunton 3y agoYou seem to be saying that you're getting a speed-up even in the first case, i.e. where you can write the code without having to think hard or look anything up. If so, how do you do it?
- FpUser 3y agoYou got it mixed up. Yes I can write some code (multiply on paper) without looking it up but it will be slower than asking GPT and then doing cut and paste with maybe some little editing.
- JaggedJax 3y agoMy calculator has never given me a wrong answer, so I trust and use it. Every time I have used ChatGPT to solve a coding problem it has had missed important edge cases or been flat out wrong. I find most tasks significantly faster to do myself, but I have found inspiration in a wrong answer that ChatGPT has given me. Maybe it's good at trivial stuff, but then I don't need it for trivial stuff so why use it then. This example is more like saying you'd use a calculator to solve (5 / 10) when it's faster to solve that yourself. Now if I was just learning my times tables, sure I'd use ChatGPT, but once I've learned them it's not helping me on the basics anymore, and may be actively hindering me.