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My experience has been similar. I recently wanted it to write code to parse and process a rather strange data file into a list & dict. Here is what I found: I
by avsteele 3y ago
My experience has been similar. I recently wanted it to write code to parse and process a rather strange data file into a list & dict. Here is what I found:
I went through a process of re-writing my prompt several times to get correct output. In fairness, I think getting the correct result meant being more precise with the prompting language.
Overall, it was a bit spooky seeing it respond to my varying prompts; then noticing it's errors; then re-prompting to fix its misconceptions. In the end, though I could have written it myself faster, so I am not sure it is saving me time.
I am surprised when I see people saying its saving them massive amounts of time. Are there any good examples out there of it producing copious amounts of code, correctly, from prompting such that I can easily believe using CoPilot is a time-saver?
- onion2k 3y agoI am surprised when I see people saying its saving them massive amounts of time. I saved a lot of time when I needed to write a whole bunch of relatively simple validators using a library I hadn't used before. I have no doubt I could have written the code myself, but using AI meant I could write a simple prompt like "Write a validator using library x to validate the following data" and then just cut'n'paste all the different data samples. It was simple but boring, and a job I would only do once so learning the validation library's API wasn't worthwhile. I reckon I saved myself a day or two.