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It’s been incredibly helpful to me. It helped me figure out how to get docker containers setup. It’s even helped me figure out how to run data analysis on graph

It’s been incredibly helpful to me. It helped me figure out how to get docker containers setup. It’s even helped me figure out how to run data analysis on graph data. It’s not just made things simpler – it’s made things possible.

horeszko 3y ago
>"It’s not just made things simpler – it’s made things possible" Nice slogan... is this an ad?
- shaunkoh 3y ago
  Lol just an attempt at being pithy. It’s true though. Something about ease of functionality curves making whole classes of new use cases / customers possible.
ChatGTP 3y ago
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- throwaway1777 3y ago
  It’s probably better than most tutorials or docs
- steve_adams_86 3y ago
  They might not need it, but it might reduce the friction dramatically. I use GPT to learn things occasionally, but it’s almost always something where I don’t have the language on hand to navigate the problem space. GPT is great at opening windows and giving you the tools you need to figure something out. In my case, I usually get to a point where I think I get the topic well enough to leave ChatGPT and go out on my own. Something interesting here is that you can ask GPT to tell you where good resources might be found on the internet. Sometimes it’ll actually come through, providing you some decent places to investigate the topic even further. Whether it’s blog posts, long form articles, or research papers. It’s mostly a matter of eliminating friction and connecting dots faster. It’s definitely not making something possible that wasn’t possible before.
  - nucleative 3y ago
    This applies to me. GPT4 increases the speed of simple tasks significantly. I needed a WordPress plugin but I'm not a WordPress developer and it's been a while since I spent much time in PHP. Ultimately I don't have time to come up to speed on this and I just want the plugin now. I wrote a ChatGPT prompt explaining the plugin in great detail, and it responded with the entire plugin. I installed it and it worked on the first try. I went back and forth for a few iterations to adjust things like css and button titles and now it's running on a live site. Had I assigned the project to someone else, I'd still have needed to write the "prompt" and I'm not sure it would have saved me any time.
- pinkcan 3y ago
  anything before a "but" is bullshit someone just offered feedback on their development experience for free, and all you can say is, "...are you so dumb you need an AI to help you with Docker?"
keyle 3y ago
This is true. Particularly if you're a polgyglot working with many different stacks. You know how to do something in X and you've never done it in Y. Explain it to ChatGPT and it gets you 95% there. It's a huge time saver. Sure you could do it by browsing the web and sticking together a bunch of pieces, rewrite it twice etc.
- shaunkoh 3y ago
  100%. I do know it might come bite me in the ass at some point. Already I didn’t realise my docker container was saving data to the NON-PERSISTENT data volume. But that was a greater reflection of Chatgpt taking me beyond my knowledge limits, and me being in a place where my ignorance of my ignorance can lead to not-great consequences.
  - revelio 3y ago
    Don't feel too bad about that one. I've seen Docker's default of non-persistent storage cause disaster even for professionals with years of experience. It's just a really bad bit of design.
vnorilo 3y ago
The strange thing is, search engines used to be able to do this. But they have gotten progressively more terrible at finding a very specific result based on a very specific query. My ChatGPT experience is not that different from the "good old days" of searching the internet. This time the search is in latent space which has up- and downsides.
Shorel 3y ago
I don't disagree with the usefulness for you particularly. But all these things were possible before ChatGPT.
synxos 3y ago
Same for me. The benefits are obviously not going to be uniformly distributed because intelligence is not uniformly distributed. If I was more intelligent I would be less impressed with it because I would probably already know what it has taught me. I understand the thermodynamics of that submarine implosion now but if I had taken any kind of physics I would have already known all that. I didn't take physics though. This pretty much extends to all subjects. I will have to have it teach me to setup docker containers. The exercise I really need to get on is to try make something in a language that I have no clue about. Like Rust or Go I know nothing other than they are programming languages. Then it is an exercise in the skill of going from zero to not zero with the help of AI and that not zero will hopefully keep scaling up and up over time.

horeszko 3y ago

>"It’s not just made things simpler – it’s made things possible" Nice slogan... is this an ad?

shaunkoh 3y ago
Lol just an attempt at being pithy. It’s true though. Something about ease of functionality curves making whole classes of new use cases / customers possible.

ChatGTP 3y ago

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throwaway1777 3y ago
It’s probably better than most tutorials or docs
steve_adams_86 3y ago
They might not need it, but it might reduce the friction dramatically. I use GPT to learn things occasionally, but it’s almost always something where I don’t have the language on hand to navigate the problem space. GPT is great at opening windows and giving you the tools you need to figure something out. In my case, I usually get to a point where I think I get the topic well enough to leave ChatGPT and go out on my own. Something interesting here is that you can ask GPT to tell you where good resources might be found on the internet. Sometimes it’ll actually come through, providing you some decent places to investigate the topic even further. Whether it’s blog posts, long form articles, or research papers. It’s mostly a matter of eliminating friction and connecting dots faster. It’s definitely not making something possible that wasn’t possible before.
- nucleative 3y ago
  This applies to me. GPT4 increases the speed of simple tasks significantly. I needed a WordPress plugin but I'm not a WordPress developer and it's been a while since I spent much time in PHP. Ultimately I don't have time to come up to speed on this and I just want the plugin now. I wrote a ChatGPT prompt explaining the plugin in great detail, and it responded with the entire plugin. I installed it and it worked on the first try. I went back and forth for a few iterations to adjust things like css and button titles and now it's running on a live site. Had I assigned the project to someone else, I'd still have needed to write the "prompt" and I'm not sure it would have saved me any time.
pinkcan 3y ago
anything before a "but" is bullshit someone just offered feedback on their development experience for free, and all you can say is, "...are you so dumb you need an AI to help you with Docker?"

keyle 3y ago

This is true. Particularly if you're a polgyglot working with many different stacks. You know how to do something in X and you've never done it in Y. Explain it to ChatGPT and it gets you 95% there. It's a huge time saver. Sure you could do it by browsing the web and sticking together a bunch of pieces, rewrite it twice etc.

shaunkoh 3y ago
100%. I do know it might come bite me in the ass at some point. Already I didn’t realise my docker container was saving data to the NON-PERSISTENT data volume. But that was a greater reflection of Chatgpt taking me beyond my knowledge limits, and me being in a place where my ignorance of my ignorance can lead to not-great consequences.
- revelio 3y ago
  Don't feel too bad about that one. I've seen Docker's default of non-persistent storage cause disaster even for professionals with years of experience. It's just a really bad bit of design.

vnorilo 3y ago

The strange thing is, search engines used to be able to do this. But they have gotten progressively more terrible at finding a very specific result based on a very specific query. My ChatGPT experience is not that different from the "good old days" of searching the internet. This time the search is in latent space which has up- and downsides.

Shorel 3y ago

I don't disagree with the usefulness for you particularly. But all these things were possible before ChatGPT.

synxos 3y ago

Same for me. The benefits are obviously not going to be uniformly distributed because intelligence is not uniformly distributed. If I was more intelligent I would be less impressed with it because I would probably already know what it has taught me. I understand the thermodynamics of that submarine implosion now but if I had taken any kind of physics I would have already known all that. I didn't take physics though. This pretty much extends to all subjects. I will have to have it teach me to setup docker containers. The exercise I really need to get on is to try make something in a language that I have no clue about. Like Rust or Go I know nothing other than they are programming languages. Then it is an exercise in the skill of going from zero to not zero with the help of AI and that not zero will hopefully keep scaling up and up over time.