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Whose code? I simply don't understand this. Are you writing code with GPT? I have simply been unable to get it to solve a technical problem in a production leve

Whose code? I simply don't understand this. Are you writing code with GPT? I have simply been unable to get it to solve a technical problem in a production level application AT ALL. The only solutions that work for me are the type of solutions that might already have a stack overflow answer. Being generous, it MIGHT improve my productivity by a percentage point in a good day.

a_subsystem 3y ago
I go to ChatGPT sometimes when I'm really banging my head against a wall and Copilot fails to generate anything useful to even get me moving in the right direction, which is rare. I've hit it up probably let's guess 3-4 times in the last 2 or 3 months. Probably 2 of those times it was anti-useful, because the garbage it put out only wasted my time.
Elte 3y ago
It's good to know I'm not the only one. Whenever I've had an occasion recently where I thought an LLM might be useful (either I didn't know the framework or I didn't quite understand the subject matter) and asked ChatGPT or Bard, they always just hallucinated crap that didn't work and couldn't be made to work. Just yesterday Bard hallucinated a method that was called `something_that_exists_somethingIAskedAbout()`, switching to camel case halfway through, that obviously didn't exist. For the same problem, ChatGPT came up with an existing method, but modified its parameter list to make it do things it didn't do. I struggle to think of a single instance where it's been helpful for me, and I keep trying, because I don't enjoy doing useless grunt work any more than the next guy, and I want to at least try to learn to ask it the "right" questions.
- javier123454321 3y ago
  I had to do a regex once in the past 3 months. It helped.
sgarland 3y ago
I find it mostly useful precisely for SO questions - where I know the answer exists, but I don’t want to try to find it via Google. The other subject I give it high praise is shell one-liners. It can produce some hideously abstruse chains that, by and large, do precisely what I asked. It’s not as good with awk, I’ve noticed, but maybe that’s because awk is much more akin to an actual general purpose programming language than, say, sed.

a_subsystem 3y ago

I go to ChatGPT sometimes when I'm really banging my head against a wall and Copilot fails to generate anything useful to even get me moving in the right direction, which is rare. I've hit it up probably let's guess 3-4 times in the last 2 or 3 months. Probably 2 of those times it was anti-useful, because the garbage it put out only wasted my time.

Elte 3y ago

It's good to know I'm not the only one. Whenever I've had an occasion recently where I thought an LLM might be useful (either I didn't know the framework or I didn't quite understand the subject matter) and asked ChatGPT or Bard, they always just hallucinated crap that didn't work and couldn't be made to work. Just yesterday Bard hallucinated a method that was called `something_that_exists_somethingIAskedAbout()`, switching to camel case halfway through, that obviously didn't exist. For the same problem, ChatGPT came up with an existing method, but modified its parameter list to make it do things it didn't do. I struggle to think of a single instance where it's been helpful for me, and I keep trying, because I don't enjoy doing useless grunt work any more than the next guy, and I want to at least try to learn to ask it the "right" questions.

javier123454321 3y ago
I had to do a regex once in the past 3 months. It helped.

sgarland 3y ago

I find it mostly useful precisely for SO questions - where I know the answer exists, but I don’t want to try to find it via Google. The other subject I give it high praise is shell one-liners. It can produce some hideously abstruse chains that, by and large, do precisely what I asked. It’s not as good with awk, I’ve noticed, but maybe that’s because awk is much more akin to an actual general purpose programming language than, say, sed.