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Typical HN pessimism, but I strongly disagree with anyone characterizing it as a huge letdown. Even if you personally don't get much use out of it (honestly ha
by whimsicalism 3y ago
Typical HN pessimism, but I strongly disagree with anyone characterizing it as a huge letdown.
Even if you personally don't get much use out of it (honestly hard for me to believe if you give it a fair try), there are tons of uses that will be impacting you significantly within the next year. Contrast that with crypto.
- tracerbulletx 3y agoIt's going to be one of those things like the internet where over the next decade it will have massively impacted every aspect of life but no one will fully appreciate how much everything has changed.
- wnc3141 3y agoIt's already replaced a bunch of search for me. I don't use it to make my own work, but I use it as a really fast q/a tool for straightforward answers absent of ads and clickbait
- GiorgioG 3y agoI paid for ChatGPT for a few months and finally cancelled yesterday. As a code generator it’s a frustrating assistant that gets it wrong most of the time. I guess that’s good from a selfish developer point of view.
- whimsicalism 3y agoIt works quite well for my usecase as a coder - generating boilerplate UDFs for spark, etc., generating boilerplate python functions from a description of what it does, rewriting code to handle errors, asking it to review simple code.