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I agree with you. It feels like a clever human on "fast thinking" mode, as Kahneman would call it. So when I ask a programming question, it feels like a master
by huijzer 3y ago
I agree with you. It feels like a clever human on "fast thinking" mode, as Kahneman would call it. So when I ask a programming question, it feels like a master student answers the first thing that comes to mind. If you ask an explanation, the first explanation that comes to mind is blurted out.
- Smaug123 3y ago(Which is why prompt engineering is a thing! The art/science of phrasing the prompt so that the immediate blurted response is more likely to be correct.)
- emmender1 3y agoprompt-engineering to get the answer is analogous to prompting the fortune teller to tell your future - ie, you have an intended answer that you expect (or wish for in the case of a fortune teller), and you tweak the prompts to get there.
- Smaug123 3y agoWell, you might not know the answer, even if you know some properties the answer must have and some processes that might lead to the answer.
- wincy 3y agoI asked it about string formatting deduplication and it suggested using a HashSet since it deduplicates strings, and I’m like “are you sure that’s the best way to do this?” Then it apologized and gave a much more “standard” way the second time I asked. You definitely need to know a little and be able to push back, it feels like. But it’s been an absolute champ in describing why things are going wrong in a general sense when I’ve been having issues, especially with generics and templates in C#.