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I feel like it's making me somewhat more productive because of how it gives me a kick in the butt and stops my mind wandering off. Getting immediate suggestions
by petercooper 3y ago
I feel like it's making me somewhat more productive because of how it gives me a kick in the butt and stops my mind wandering off. Getting immediate suggestions and ideas from a "third party" on whatever I'm doing leads me on to the next step of whatever I'm doing rather than getting tempted to procrastinate. I doubt this will benefit everyone, but I guess this is how pair programming can be quite effective for some people too.
- sitkack 3y agoGenAI allows me to stay in a flow state for longer and it reduces cognitive fatigue.
- Smaug123 3y agoI guess you're using ChatGPT 3.5? I'd have thought v4 is simply too slow and you'd be unavoidably jolted out of flow waiting for it.
- sitkack 3y agoBoth. v4 is fast during periods of low load, it is slower now than when I first got access. My usage patterns have shifted because of this, so I write longer prompts, have it do more work and switch to different tab. I'd pay more than twice as much to have it be at least 50% faster.
- ardrak 3y agoI feel it too, even if the suggestion is wrong it still trigger my brain to think "No, it should be like this." and then I write the thing. Rinse and repeat.
- ghaff 3y agoI've written a few things (words) where one of the LLMs gave me a pretty good starting point. It needed some work but it saved me Googling around to get some sort of starting draft down on paper--which invariably turns into more Googling around and distractions. It's always been stuff I've known well enough that I knew what was right, wrong, and insipid. But it was a starting point (which can be useful, especially if you're just going for workmanlike anyway).