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Example from earlier today. I wanted to know how to format a date as "06/04/1947", just like that with leading zeros. I can never remember the details of the co
by delichon 2y ago
Example from earlier today. I wanted to know how to format a date as "06/04/1947", just like that with leading zeros. I can never remember the details of the complex Ruby `strftime` method, so I usually have to spelunk in the docs for the details. Instead I prompted an LLM with "format a Ruby date like '06/04/1947'" and it gave me the correct answer, faster than I could have found the doc page let alone decoded it.
Why the heck not use AI when it's better?
- adamomada 2y agoJune 4th or April 6th? Don’t use that date format :)
- delichon 2y agoDo don't integrate with legacy systems? That's a nice luxury.
- JD557 2y ago> Why the heck not use AI when it's better? I think that, in its current iteration, it is not that easy to know. I haven't tried GPT 4 (which I've heard is much better), but my experiences with 3.5 have been extremely frustrating and underwhelming. I absolutely hate when it starts making stuff up and I have to fix it via the traditional way, it just wasted my time! I guess this boils down to personal preference, but so far I just prefer a good old Google search. I was quite happy with copilot auto complete, though. Mostly because of how low friction it was.