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Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Dude forgetting stuff has to be one the most frustrating parts of the entire process . Like forgetting a column in a database or just an entire piece of a function you just pasted in

It was actually worse. I was pulling data out of local logs and processing events. I asked to assess a couple columns that I was struggling to parse properly, and it got those ones in, but dropped some of my existing columns. I pointed out the error, it acknowledged the issue, then spat out code that reverted to the first output!

Though, that wasn’t nearly as bad as it telling me that a variable a couple hundred lines and multiple transformations wasn’t being populated by an early variable, and I literally went in and just copied each declaration line and sent it back like I was smacking an intern on the nose or something…

For a bit designed to read and analyze text, it is surprisingly bad at the whole ‘reading’ aspect. But maybe that’s just how human like the intelligence is /s

Or trying to change things you never asked it to touch. So freaking annoying. I had standing instructions in it’s memory to not leave out pieces or modify things I didn’t ask for and will put that stuff in the prompt and it just does not care lol

OMFG this. I’ve had decent luck recently after setting up a project and explicitly laying out a number of global directives, because yeah, it was awful trying to figure out exactly what changed when I diff the input and output, and fucking everything is red because even the goddamned comments are changed. But even just trying to make it understand basic style requirements was a solid half hour of arguing with it (only partially because I forgot the proper names of casings) so it wouldn’t make me lint the whole goddamned script I just told it to analyze and fix one item.

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