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ChatGPT is awesome. More often than not, I ask it to do something and it produces something that works in some way on the first go. Then I debug it, but I debug
by dools 3y ago
ChatGPT is awesome. More often than not, I ask it to do something and it produces something that works in some way on the first go. Then I debug it, but I debug it using ChatGPT and, in almost all cases, get to working code faster than I could have if I were simply writing it from scratch. It's also much more enjoyable and I can do other things while it types its answer.
Perhaps I find it so useful because I'm actually using it for real world tasks instead of trying to contrive an example that demonstrates its usefulness or lack thereof.
- Madmallard 3y agoWhenever I try to debug with ChatGPT for anything it wrote that's complicated it just creates an endless loop of "wrong in a different way"
- dools 3y agoI have bumped up against its limitations from time to time, and sometimes after a while working on the same thing it just totally loses the plot, but by and large I get phenomenal results. That being said it may be good at some technologies but not others. I spend quite a bit of time working on JavaScript, specifically Google Apps Script and NodeJS (not frontend) and BigQuery SQL, but I have also used it for bash scripting, generic Linux type config/sysadmin stuff, PHP stuff, API development. Maybe if you're writing something more eclectic then it struggles.