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gigachad@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoAbsolutely agree. I just use it for some simple one liners like “every nth row in a pandas datagrams slice a string from x to y if column z is True” or something like that. These logics take time to write, and GPT usually comes up with a right solution or one that doesn’t need a lot of modification.
But debugging or analyzing an error? No thanks
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I have on multiple occasions told it exactly what the error is and how to fix it. The AI agrees, apologizes, and gives me the same broken code again. It takes the same amount of time to describe the error as it would have for me to fix it.
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is my experience as well. Best case scenario it gives me a rough idea of what functions to use or how to set up the logic, but then it always screws up the actual implementation. I’ve never asked ChatGPT for coding help and gotten something I can use off the bat. I always have to rewrite it before it’s functional.
spirinolas@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My rule of thumb is, if he doesn’t give you the solution right off the bat he won’t give you one. If that happens either fix it yourself or start a new chat and reformulate the question completely.