It’s good for coding if you train it on your own code base. Not for very complex code, but it’s great for common patterns and straightforward questions specific to your code base (eg “how do I load a user’s most recent order given their email address?”)
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KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks agoAfter getting my head around the basics of the way LLMs work I thought “people rely on this for information?”, the model seems ok for tasks like summarisation though
dan@upvote.au 2 weeks ago
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s wild when you only know how to use SELECT in SQL, but after a dollar worth of prompting and 10 minutes of your time, you can have a significantly complex query you end up using multiple times a week.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
the model seems ok for tasks like summarisation though
That and retrieval and the business use cases so far, but even then only if the results can be wrong somewhat frequently.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I don’t love it for summarization. If I read a summary, my takeaway may be inaccurate.
Brainstorming is incredible. And revision suggestions. And drafting tedious responses, reformatting, parsing.
In all cases, nothing gets attributed to me unless I read every word and am in a position to verify the output. And I internalize nothing directly, besides philosophy or something. Sure can be an amazing starting point especially compared to a blank page.