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> Think of it as a "better linter". No way. A linter is deterministic. ChatGPT is all over the place and, for me, it’s wrong almost every time I ask it anyth
by donmcronald 3y ago
> Think of it as a "better linter".
No way. A linter is deterministic. ChatGPT is all over the place and, for me, it’s wrong almost every time I ask it anything. I wouldn’t trust it to tell me the ingredients in a pepperoni pizza. I’m definitely not letting it give me programming advice.
- jiggawatts 3y agoIronically, I had a lot of trouble with a particular recipe (pan-fried gyoza with a crispy bottom), and it was only GPT 4 that gave me a working recipe! The lack of determinism can be considered a type of strength. Run it multiple times! It might find different bugs each time. Humans are the same, by the way. If you show a random set of programmers random snippets of code, you'll get a non-deterministic result. They won't all find all of the bugs.
- donmcronald 3y ago> The lack of determinism can be considered a type of strength. Run it multiple times! It might find different bugs each time. I’ve only tried it with code a little bit, but what I find is that it gives me hallucinations that I need to spend time figuring out. I don’t know what it’s saying, because it’s gibberish, and then I have to spend my time figuring out it’s not accurate. I don’t want to run on that treadmill. I’m guessing software will continue the trend of getting less reliable as more people are willing to generate it via an AI.
- jiggawatts 3y agoDid you try GPT 4? It hallucinates a lot less.