Comment on AP Shares Guidelines Prohibiting Staff From Using AI to Write Publishable Content

• kava@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It depends how you use it, I think, like any tool. I might ask ChatGPT to help me write an algorithm to do a certain thing in pseudocode so I can understand it. Ask it a few questions about optimization just so I have a sense for how it works then I implement it myself.

  It can also help you think about ideas. I will copy paste a function or file and then ask questions like “what are some considerations do you think I should have?” “is there anything I could be missing?” “what could make this code better?” “how would you optimize this?” “how would you make it simpler?”

  let me find some simple example

  function findAbsoluteMax(arr) {
    return arr.reduce((val, next) => {
      if (Math.abs(next) > Math.abs(val)) {
        return next;
      } else {
        return val;
      }
    });
  }
  

  Let’s ask GPT4 “how could we make this code better?”

  It offers two suggestions

  1. there should be some simple error handling. for example if the arr is length 0 then it should throw an error or return a null. this makes sense and is a good thing to add - perhaps this would have saved me a lot of headache in some scenario where I’m getting a weird bug

  2. add a ternary operator to make the arr.reduce call shorter

     return arr.reduce((val, next) => Math.abs(next) > Math.abs(val) ? next : val );

  I think this does actually make it more readable and condenses it - a pretty good thing

  Now, this is a simple function but you can actually copy in a whole file and ask it to analyze things you might be missing or considerations you could make. It’s like talking to the yellow duck except the yellow duck talks back

  There’s a lot of power in this technology and it doesn’t simply revolve around copy pasting code. Perhaps my example wasn’t the greatest but someone else can share how they use it

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  • sheogorath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yea I pretty much use ChatGPT as an interactive rubber duck when working. However I’ve refrained from pasting a file or a code snippet from my work to it as there’s already some IP leaks happened at Samsung and my company has shared a guideline on how to use AI tools to help with work. They know that people will keep using it regardless, so what they can do is to keep people from leaking company or client IPs by sharing a file to the AI tools.

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