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How? I mean my “wonder”-factor has probably decreased but it’s an integral tool for me. CLI one-liners or simple scripts are probably my main use-case. So many

How? I mean my “wonder”-factor has probably decreased but it’s an integral tool for me. CLI one-liners or simple scripts are probably my main use-case. So many things I always knew were possible (and implemented in some cases in the past) but often avoided since I wasn’t sure if it would pay off that now I can do with ChatGPT. Simple things like “benchmark this endpoint and output the min/max/avg/p99 stats every 10 requests with a rolling window of 100 requests”, no it’s not hard to write that but often I just wouldn’t have to time to test out a theory so I’d skip this. I’ve lost count (easily over 30+) times I’ve dealt with a production issue using ChatGPT to write something to better analyze the problem (parsing stuff out of logs often). A whole slew of “I wonder if…” questions that I’m able to answer in <2min vs having to spend 10-15+ if I did it all manually. No, it’s not perfect and sometimes I need to go back and forth a few times but the overall speed up using ChatGPT is significant.

whywhywhywhy 3y ago
> how? They nerfed it at Dev Day in November. It’s just no longer the magic tool it was before than anymore. It’s ok for maybe one shot problems or refactors of small functions but the version where you could in an hour work back and forth with it and build something moderately complex from scratch is dead and often some of the generations just waste time rather than solve the problem.
- ambrose2 3y ago
  Is there real proof of this? I’d love to read more about it because I’ve been so frustrated the last few months.
- CuriouslyC 3y ago
  I don't know that I'd say they nerfed it exactly. They made some tradeoffs you don't like. The old GPT4 had more personality, was more flexible in its responses and would go on for longer. The new GPT4 is more consistently helpful and does a better job of presenting small-form answers neatly, but the alignment has definitely had an impact for a lot of use cases.

whywhywhywhy 3y ago

> how? They nerfed it at Dev Day in November. It’s just no longer the magic tool it was before than anymore. It’s ok for maybe one shot problems or refactors of small functions but the version where you could in an hour work back and forth with it and build something moderately complex from scratch is dead and often some of the generations just waste time rather than solve the problem.

ambrose2 3y ago
Is there real proof of this? I’d love to read more about it because I’ve been so frustrated the last few months.
CuriouslyC 3y ago
I don't know that I'd say they nerfed it exactly. They made some tradeoffs you don't like. The old GPT4 had more personality, was more flexible in its responses and would go on for longer. The new GPT4 is more consistently helpful and does a better job of presenting small-form answers neatly, but the alignment has definitely had an impact for a lot of use cases.