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Remember when tesla told us their cars could drive themselves? Then, like five years later, they still weren’t really driving themselves. (= AI feels sort of
by dbg31415 3y ago
Remember when tesla told us their cars could drive themselves?
Then, like five years later, they still weren’t really driving themselves. (=
AI feels sort of like that.
ChatGPT is fun, but gets as much wrong as it gets right.
The only things I consistently use it for are rewriting my emails in different tones and to summarize large documents / emails that I don’t feel like reading.
- numbers_guy 3y agoBut ChatGPT is already useful if you use it correctly. I don't try to make it write my code. I use it as an expert knowledge system. If I need a specific BASH command or I want to figure out how to do something in some badly documented but widely used API, I just ask it and it gives me good hints.
- quonn 3y agoThis is spot on, I also use it to write bash scripts where I could never remember the exact syntax to accomplish a task.
- wudangmonk 3y agoThis reflects my experience with it so far but I see so many claims of multiplicative "productivity" boosts but there's always a lack of concrete examples of what this means. Avoiding a quick google/stack overflow search is not my definition of productivity boosts. ChatGPT is useful for generating text that look okay at a distance. I can see the use for creating low quality content to drive traffic to a website, something like medium. For coding its not useful for any language you are proficient in. There is just so much hype around it but I just can't find the usecase for it.
- ttctciyf 3y ago> I just can't find the usecase for it Evidently: for coding in languages you are not proficient in! What could go wrong?
- gaganyaan 3y agoIt's been great as I've been trying out Nix, exactly because I'm not familiar with Nix. It doesn't just magically solve all my problems, but it's been super helpful in showing me general aporoaches that I wasn't aware of, and also gets the answer right most of the time. You're being facetious, but I agree unironically.
- danielbln 3y agoEvery HN thread has plenty of examples, refactoring/extending/explain8 code, structuring text, knowledge summary and so on. Where do you guys live that you are still looking for the plethora usecases that people are using this tech for?!