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I don't think using ChatGPT is similar to searching for answers on S.O. Maybe if you were asking people on S.O. to write your code for you, or plugging in exact

I don't think using ChatGPT is similar to searching for answers on S.O. Maybe if you were asking people on S.O. to write your code for you, or plugging in exact snippets. The point here is that letting ChatGPT write code directly into your repo is effectively plagiarism and may violate any number of licenses you don't even realize you're breaking, whereas just looking at how other people did something, understanding, and then writing your own code, does not.

hanselot 3y ago
I've been experiencing carpal tunnel on and off for a couple of weeks now. I can tell you that reading through some code generated by "insert llm x" is substantially less painful than writing all of it by my own hand. Especially if you start understanding how to refine your prompts to the point where you use a single thread for project management and use that thread to generate prompts for other threads. Not all value to be gained from this is purely copypasta.
- clbrmbr 3y ago
  Same here. End of last year I had to take more time off than I wanted to because of my wrists and hands. Copilot and GPT4 (combined with good compression braces) got me back in the game.
- bombolo 3y ago
  Take sick leave
  - ddingus 3y ago
    Boy, those easy answers are right there! Can't miss 'em. A guy could wonder why so many of us do not use those answers. Could it be the details complicate things just enough to take the easy answer off the table? Perhaps it is just me. What say you?
    - bombolo 3y ago
      Do you have a point to make? Maybe I should ask chatgpt to find it because I sure can't.
      - ddingus 3y ago
        Yes I do. The point is blurting out some one liner fix all doesn't help anyone really.
DougBTX 3y ago
Honestly I couldn’t tell you whether copying code out of Stack Overflow or out of ChatGPT is more legally suspect. For SO, you don’t know where the user got the code from either (wrote it themselves? Copied it out of their work repo? Copied from some random GPL source?)
- deleted 3y ago
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- noduerme 3y ago
  Well, this is why you don't copy code from S.O. You read it, understand why it works, then write your own.

hanselot 3y ago

I've been experiencing carpal tunnel on and off for a couple of weeks now. I can tell you that reading through some code generated by "insert llm x" is substantially less painful than writing all of it by my own hand. Especially if you start understanding how to refine your prompts to the point where you use a single thread for project management and use that thread to generate prompts for other threads. Not all value to be gained from this is purely copypasta.

clbrmbr 3y ago
Same here. End of last year I had to take more time off than I wanted to because of my wrists and hands. Copilot and GPT4 (combined with good compression braces) got me back in the game.
bombolo 3y ago
Take sick leave
- ddingus 3y ago
  Boy, those easy answers are right there! Can't miss 'em. A guy could wonder why so many of us do not use those answers. Could it be the details complicate things just enough to take the easy answer off the table? Perhaps it is just me. What say you?
  - bombolo 3y ago
    Do you have a point to make? Maybe I should ask chatgpt to find it because I sure can't.
    - ddingus 3y ago
      Yes I do. The point is blurting out some one liner fix all doesn't help anyone really.

DougBTX 3y ago

Honestly I couldn’t tell you whether copying code out of Stack Overflow or out of ChatGPT is more legally suspect. For SO, you don’t know where the user got the code from either (wrote it themselves? Copied it out of their work repo? Copied from some random GPL source?)

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noduerme 3y ago
Well, this is why you don't copy code from S.O. You read it, understand why it works, then write your own.