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I know jack squat about programming. I could at one point do “hello world” in Python, if I recall correctly. Thanks to ChatGPT I now have scripts to make my lif
by Arn_Thor 2y ago
I know jack squat about programming. I could at one point do “hello world” in Python, if I recall correctly. Thanks to ChatGPT I now have scripts to make my life easier in a bunch of ways and a growing high-level understanding of how they work. I can’t program, an I won’t claim to. But I can be useful. Thanks to LLMs. (And before the catastrophists arrive: I know enough to be wary of the risks of running scripts I don’t understand, which is why I make a point of understanding how they function before I proceed)
- sweeter 2y agoThats great for sure, but I still think you should take the time to learn the basics. Also, go to the r/bash subreddit and search "chatGPT" and see just how many people end up there with: "HELP! ChatGPT destroyed my system" most commonly people want a command that will move pictures or something and the LLM spits out something feasible, they turn it into a shortcut on their mac and click it, and it is literally just 'find -type f -exec mv {} ..' with relative paths and it moves all of their critical files into random places. It is quite literally something I've seen happen at least 5 times. There is a lot of benefit in just learning a little bit and then having the flexibility to write anything you want.
- Arn_Thor 2y agoI agree I should learn to do it from scratch. And I’ve been given an added motivation to do so by seeing how useful just a few lines of code can be. And you’re not wrong. I’ve learned the benefit of versioning when working with LLMs because if you’re not careful asking it to do one change can easily break something else. It’s far from a panacea