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Certain personalities and communication styles are able to generate useful prompts. A 10% efficiency boost that some programmers are experiencing could transla

Certain personalities and communication styles are able to generate useful prompts. A 10% efficiency boost that some programmers are experiencing could translate into an extra 5 weeks off if you are smart about it, so it is quite life changing for some.

simpli 3y ago
Increased efficiency doesn't translate to increased time off, just increased expectations from our bosses :)
- mensetmanusman 3y ago
  There are ways to get way faster at completing tasks without increasing the expectations with no change in pay.
  - moneywoes 3y ago
    Could you elaborate
    - Marrand 3y ago
      I think he means that you just don't tell anyone that you now only work 6 hours a day instead of the 7.5 hours you used to. If your productivity is approximately the same no one will be able to tell. Requires you to be in a position where you are not strictly supervised of course.
  - ceejayoz 3y ago
    Right, but none of those are likely to get you said five weeks off, unless you're planning on pretending to be remote working while actually on vacation. Which is... risky.
    - throwaway202351 3y ago
      Sounds like something out of "The Four Hour Workweek"
moneywoes 3y ago
Or fewer employers
gAI 3y ago
"Certain personalities and communication styles are able to generate useful prompts." Would you mind expanding on that a bit? I've largely had great experiences getting what I want out of ChatGPT. But I've been continually surprised by the number (and variety) of people who don't see the utility of it.
- MarkusQ 3y ago
  For the chat systems I've found acting like Columbo (from 1970's TV detective) works wonders: you want to be polite but persistent, open but not gullible. Don't fight it, but don't just let it drive. For the non-chat interfaces, I imagine a whiteboarding session with a really competent intern at the board, rapid prototyping / wireframing that you can play with "live" and refine far further than you could IRL, but still ultimately prototyping. > I've been continually surprised by the number (and variety) of people who don't see the utility of it. If you _don't_ do it this way, you can easily fall into all sorts of time wasting anti-patterns; if you try to trick it, or allow yourself to be easily fooled by it, get stubborn & closed minded, pedantic and argumentative or whatever, well, there are lots of examples of how those sorts of interactions go in the training data too, and it will just as happily go down them as any other.
  - gAI 3y ago
    I've heard it described as a new kind of mirror test - one we're not instinctually good at.

simpli 3y ago

Increased efficiency doesn't translate to increased time off, just increased expectations from our bosses :)

mensetmanusman 3y ago
There are ways to get way faster at completing tasks without increasing the expectations with no change in pay.
- moneywoes 3y ago
  Could you elaborate
  - Marrand 3y ago
    I think he means that you just don't tell anyone that you now only work 6 hours a day instead of the 7.5 hours you used to. If your productivity is approximately the same no one will be able to tell. Requires you to be in a position where you are not strictly supervised of course.
- ceejayoz 3y ago
  Right, but none of those are likely to get you said five weeks off, unless you're planning on pretending to be remote working while actually on vacation. Which is... risky.
  - throwaway202351 3y ago
    Sounds like something out of "The Four Hour Workweek"

moneywoes 3y ago

Or fewer employers

gAI 3y ago

"Certain personalities and communication styles are able to generate useful prompts." Would you mind expanding on that a bit? I've largely had great experiences getting what I want out of ChatGPT. But I've been continually surprised by the number (and variety) of people who don't see the utility of it.

MarkusQ 3y ago
For the chat systems I've found acting like Columbo (from 1970's TV detective) works wonders: you want to be polite but persistent, open but not gullible. Don't fight it, but don't just let it drive. For the non-chat interfaces, I imagine a whiteboarding session with a really competent intern at the board, rapid prototyping / wireframing that you can play with "live" and refine far further than you could IRL, but still ultimately prototyping. > I've been continually surprised by the number (and variety) of people who don't see the utility of it. If you _don't_ do it this way, you can easily fall into all sorts of time wasting anti-patterns; if you try to trick it, or allow yourself to be easily fooled by it, get stubborn & closed minded, pedantic and argumentative or whatever, well, there are lots of examples of how those sorts of interactions go in the training data too, and it will just as happily go down them as any other.
- gAI 3y ago
  I've heard it described as a new kind of mirror test - one we're not instinctually good at.