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AI has been a huge help in my daily life both work and home. I use it do debug, diagnose, search for information, write code, answer numerous questions I get f

AI has been a huge help in my daily life both work and home. I use it do debug, diagnose, search for information, write code, answer numerous questions I get from my kids, etc. "AI can be wrong" - like that hasn't been a problem with humans since forever... Like with any information, you have to be diligent. I teach my kids this also.

da02 2y ago
Which AI tools do you use to debug? search for information?
- volkk 2y ago
  search for information? -- perplexity is good for this debug -- cursor.sh for coding/debugging with your codebase as context. also just raw inputting into claude is pretty effective.
pennybanks 2y ago
think about the scope and relativity. with the amount these companies have totally committed to this idea and technology. in terms of consumer use for it to just search for info, and write code is a total failure. i mean by their words really. we are basically told it will be integrated in dang near everything and uses electricity
passwordoops 2y ago
Is it helpful to the point of a $30-$50 a month subscription? And at a larger scale, is this help in general worth the energy and water expenditure needed? Edit: to be clear the second point is not against the individual, but questioning whether the modest gains in convenience for all users are worth the environmental and infrastructure cost
Thaxll 2y ago
Old people used to call that "googling".
- tverbeure 2y ago
  Maybe it's because Google search quality has gone down, but I've had plenty of cases where ChatGPT 4.0 got me the exact answer that I wanted but Google didn't. And then there's the tasks where Google just doesn't play. Things like this: "Write the code to parse the following line with PyParser: { blah=0x10, foo=0x20, l={1,4,5,7}, t = { a="hello", b="hi"} }" Google just gives me a link to PyParser (yay!), ChatGPT provides the full code and even runs it to show that it works.
yoyohello13 2y ago
I've been using Claude for the same types of stuff. It's definitely save me with some debugging and code. I still think it's a pretty over-hyped. The entire industry doesn't need to be working on this stuff. Helpful and useful? Yes. A huge help? Game changing? I would say no.

da02 2y ago

Which AI tools do you use to debug? search for information?

volkk 2y ago
search for information? -- perplexity is good for this debug -- cursor.sh for coding/debugging with your codebase as context. also just raw inputting into claude is pretty effective.

pennybanks 2y ago

think about the scope and relativity. with the amount these companies have totally committed to this idea and technology. in terms of consumer use for it to just search for info, and write code is a total failure. i mean by their words really. we are basically told it will be integrated in dang near everything and uses electricity

passwordoops 2y ago

Is it helpful to the point of a $30-$50 a month subscription? And at a larger scale, is this help in general worth the energy and water expenditure needed? Edit: to be clear the second point is not against the individual, but questioning whether the modest gains in convenience for all users are worth the environmental and infrastructure cost

Thaxll 2y ago

Old people used to call that "googling".

tverbeure 2y ago
Maybe it's because Google search quality has gone down, but I've had plenty of cases where ChatGPT 4.0 got me the exact answer that I wanted but Google didn't. And then there's the tasks where Google just doesn't play. Things like this: "Write the code to parse the following line with PyParser: { blah=0x10, foo=0x20, l={1,4,5,7}, t = { a="hello", b="hi"} }" Google just gives me a link to PyParser (yay!), ChatGPT provides the full code and even runs it to show that it works.

yoyohello13 2y ago

I've been using Claude for the same types of stuff. It's definitely save me with some debugging and code. I still think it's a pretty over-hyped. The entire industry doesn't need to be working on this stuff. Helpful and useful? Yes. A huge help? Game changing? I would say no.