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I use “chatGPT” (really bing chat which is openAI under the hood as I understand) more than anyone on my team but it is very rarely for code. I most often use
by JohnMakin 3y ago
I use “chatGPT” (really bing chat which is openAI under the hood as I understand) more than anyone on my team but it is very rarely for code.
I most often use it for summarizing/searching through dense documentation, creating quick prototypes, “given X,Y,Z symptoms and this confusing error message, can you give me a list of possible causes?” (basically searches Stack Overflow far better than I can).
Anyway basically the same as I was using google when google was actually good. sometimes I will forget some obscure syntax and ask it how to do something, but not super often. I’m convinced using it solely to generate code is a mistake unless it’s tedious boilerplate stuff.
- necrotic_comp 3y agoYes, agreed. The best way of putting this is "using google when google was actually good."
- Tostino 3y agoBing is far and away worse than gpt4 through ChatGPT or the API, just FYI. Don't even consider it comparable, even if they say it is the same model under the hood. Their "optimizations" have crippled it's capabilities if that is the case.
- JohnMakin 3y agoWell, it works pretty well for me, and cites its sources with links, and I have yet to catch it making up something.
- Tostino 3y agoWe were talking about code generation though. It's horrible at it.
- JohnMakin 3y agoMy parent commen says I rarely use it for code generation and I think if you're using these tools purely for that you're doing it wrong... that was like my entire point
- Workaccount2 3y agoRight, but your reference for the point is a weak model. Your view would likely change a bit if you used GPT-4. It is substantially more powerful and skilled.
- Tostino 3y agoExactly what I was trying to say. Thank you. Still works best if you know what you are doing and can give very detailed instructions, but GPT-4 is vastly more capable than Bing for these tasks.
- JohnMakin 3y agoBut I don't need it to be. Like at all. I've yet to find a programming task that GPT-4 would have made faster, and yes I have used it.