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Worth noting that ChatGPT et al. Are equally useless for debugging Nix. Frustrating that it’s so far behind. Error messages are often cryptic and misleading.
by joshcsimmons 2y ago
Worth noting that ChatGPT et al. Are equally useless for debugging Nix. Frustrating that it’s so far behind. Error messages are often cryptic and misleading.
- ChocolateGod 2y agoYep, I thought ChatGPT was trained on Github but it's generated precisely 0 correct .nix files for me to date.
- SuperSandro2000 2y agoAre you complaining that AI is not the savior of everything?
- pasc1878 2y agoI suspect Sturgeons law is at work here. "90% of everything is crap" I can believe that especially with nix - there isn't a defined way to do things. Most flakes out there will be done by newcomers learning and flakes is relative new e.g. 2020. The documentation of nix is bad. SO ChatGPT3 had very little good stuff to learn from and later won't have much better.
- ChocolateGod 2y agoA lot of the documentation includes code snippets but with no detail or context on where those snippets should be, so ChatGPT often puts things in the wrong place.
- pasc1878 2y agoAs noted most of things are crap - here the thing is documentation