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Same. Even for technologies that it supposedly should know a lot about (e.g. Kafka), if I prompt it for something slightly non-standard, it just makes up things
by Tainnor 3y ago
Same. Even for technologies that it supposedly should know a lot about (e.g. Kafka), if I prompt it for something slightly non-standard, it just makes up things that aren't supported or is otherwise unhelpful.
The one time I've found ChatGPT to be genuinely useful is when I asked it to explain a bash script to me, seeing as bash is notoriously inscrutable. Still, it did get a detail wrong somehow.
- clnq 3y agoYes, it is good at summarizing things and regressing things down to labels. It’s much worse at producing concrete and specific results from its corpus of abstract knowledge. I think that’s the case with every discipline for it, not only programming. Even when everyone was amazed it could make poetry out of everything, if you asked for a specific type of poem and specific imagery in it, it would generally fail.