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There's a method that's even faster than asking ChatGPT what to type, and that's knowing what to type. For tasks you do regularly, it's worth the investment to
by markstos 3y ago
There's a method that's even faster than asking ChatGPT what to type, and that's knowing what to type.
For tasks you do regularly, it's worth the investment to learn.
- kstrauser 3y agoI agree. Here it's being used like a translation app: convert English into the shell language. That's all well and good for a place you're going to visit a couple of times, but if you plan on living there, you need to learn the local language.
- AlecSchueler 3y agoBeing able to use a tool akin to Google translate is a fantastic boon to language learning though.
- kstrauser 3y agoAbsolutely! It’s a fantastic learning cool, but not a substitute for actual learning.
- _fizz_buzz_ 3y agoTrue, but we cannot possible learn all the things. I wrote a nice little batch script last week with the help of ChatGPT. This is something I have to do maybe once or twice a year and I am sure someone who does this every day was a lot faster, but what took me maybe 30 mins would've taken me a day.
- worik 3y agoYes. But there is so much to know one short life I use Perl, now, for shell scripts. Long before LLMs I decided I could not learn another syntax when Perl was 99% as good Same reason I have not learnt Sed and Awk.
- thrwlol 3y agoYou really should compare your typing speed with chatgpt if you think you can out type it for a question that you know. Once I write the document string of the function I want it gets it right faster than anyone I know.
- corethree 3y agoI like this method. The problem with it is that there's just too much stuff to know. So let me teach you another method. Don't try to know everything, learn to get things from other resources, one of which is chatGPT. Worth the investment to be wise about what you pick and choose to learn.