I had to sort over 100 lines of data hardcoded into source (don’t ask) and it was a quick function in my IDE.
I feel like “sort” is common enough everywhere that AI should quickly identify the right Google results, and it shouldn’t take 3 min
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BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Just the other day I wasted 3 min trying to get AI to sort 8 lines alphabetically.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 days ago
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I wouldn’t mention this to anyone at work. It makes you sound clueless
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 3 days ago
My boss insists I use it and I insist on telling him when it can’t do the simplest things.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It sounds like you’ve got it all figured out. Best of luck to you
bassomitron@lemmy.world 3 days ago
By having it write a quick function to do so or to sort them alphabetically within the chat? Because I’ve used GPT to write boilerplate and/or basic functions for random tasks like this numerous times without issue. But expecting it to sort a block of text for you is not what LLMs are really built for.
That being said, I agree that expecting AI to write complex and/or long-form code is a fool’s hope. It’s good for basic tasks to save time and that’s about it.
doxxx@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I’ve actually had a fair bit of success getting it to do things like this. Heck I even got it to do some matrix transformations of vectors in a JSON file.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The tool I use can rewrite code given basic commands. Other times I might say, “Write a comment above each line” or “Propose better names for these variables” and it does a decent job.