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I have tried ChatGPT quite a lot. CoPilot has failed to rock up on my KDE desktop - but I live in hope. I really tried and I was both impressed and horrified
by gerdesj 2y ago
I have tried ChatGPT quite a lot. CoPilot has failed to rock up on my KDE desktop - but I live in hope.
I really tried and I was both impressed and horrified in equal measure. I advise people to use them but treat them like a calculator that snorts cocaine.
A calculator is a useful tool but when they start going off the rails, things can start to get nasty.
I should be more precise: After messing around with generic questions and answers, I went for VMware PowerCLI to test it out. PowerCLI is PowerShell for VMware boxes. PowerShell is very popular so loads of input. PowerCLI is VMware so lots of input too but not quite so much as PS itself.
I tried to get ChatGPT to generate a PS script to patch a VMware cluster. The result was horrific and not even close. Bear in mind that the entirety of the VMware docs for PowerCLI are public and I wrote a script myself - its not perfect but good enough.
Oh and I am dropping VMware for good in favour of Proxmox. I have been a VMware consultant for 20+ years. Oh well.
- stevage 2y agoA cocaine-snorting calculator, great analogy :) I do find that for big tasks I generally have to scaffold it a bit, lead it in the right direction. But it's also impressive the way it can do tasks that I can't: like writing complex TypeScript. I could spend hours on certain TypeScript challenges and not actually find a workable solution. With ChatGPT I can usually either get a solution, or convince myself it's not going to happen, within 5-10 minutes.