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That’s super interesting. I’m recovering from burnout and other health issues and I’ve found it to be occasional helpful in the way you are describing. For me,

That’s super interesting. I’m recovering from burnout and other health issues and I’ve found it to be occasional helpful in the way you are describing. For me, it can smooth out the process and “lower the intensity” of accomplishing any particular task, especially if it is something where I don’t know how to do it off the top of my head (what libs / functions to use, how to call them, etc). I can then pretty easily correct any mistakes, and I didn’t have to spend 20 mins googling, reading docs, and so on in order to solve the problem. If you don’t mind, do you have any good examples of how you prompt it? Your process looks pretty nice / robust, it would be cool to see it in action. Also, have you used gpt-4 much or can you get away with using 3.5 sometimes?

padolsey 3y ago
> what libs / functions to use, how to call them Yeh same. It's got pretty good overview of what libraries are available. I tend to ask it for an npm module to do x and it always has a couple options, and can list pros/cons, and give/modify code to use them. > have you used gpt-4 much or can you get away with using 3.5 sometimes? Ah so I _always_ use gpt4. It's in a whole other ballpark IMHO. > If you don’t mind, do you have any good examples of how you prompt it? E.g. I would say something like "show me precisely how to set-up, code and deploy a nextjs app that lets a user "...". It tends to be really good at doing simple standalone stuff like todos/colorpickers/blah apps, but you'd be surprised how far it can get with a more advanced problem domain. E.g. I just entered this and it's really impressed me with its output: "Can u show me how to set-up, code and deploy a nextjs app that lets users input a set of sentences into a textarea and receive back clustered sets of sentences (based on semantic similarity) with different colors of the hsl spectrum indicating that similarity." - try it! It gives complete react components, endpoints using tensorflow, and shows how to vary hsl based on weights. I reckon I'd have to make around 20 mins changes to get it working and deployed.
- re-thc 3y ago
  > try it! It gives complete react components, Maybe I expect more or work on different standards but every time I've tried it it gives low quality code with issues that I rather write it myself. Sometimes it'd give completely wrong answers. It's just not code I'd commit or let pass a code review.

padolsey 3y ago

> what libs / functions to use, how to call them Yeh same. It's got pretty good overview of what libraries are available. I tend to ask it for an npm module to do x and it always has a couple options, and can list pros/cons, and give/modify code to use them. > have you used gpt-4 much or can you get away with using 3.5 sometimes? Ah so I _always_ use gpt4. It's in a whole other ballpark IMHO. > If you don’t mind, do you have any good examples of how you prompt it? E.g. I would say something like "show me precisely how to set-up, code and deploy a nextjs app that lets a user "...". It tends to be really good at doing simple standalone stuff like todos/colorpickers/blah apps, but you'd be surprised how far it can get with a more advanced problem domain. E.g. I just entered this and it's really impressed me with its output: "Can u show me how to set-up, code and deploy a nextjs app that lets users input a set of sentences into a textarea and receive back clustered sets of sentences (based on semantic similarity) with different colors of the hsl spectrum indicating that similarity." - try it! It gives complete react components, endpoints using tensorflow, and shows how to vary hsl based on weights. I reckon I'd have to make around 20 mins changes to get it working and deployed.

re-thc 3y ago
> try it! It gives complete react components, Maybe I expect more or work on different standards but every time I've tried it it gives low quality code with issues that I rather write it myself. Sometimes it'd give completely wrong answers. It's just not code I'd commit or let pass a code review.