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Pistcow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ArbiterXero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As someone that uses ChatGPT daily for boilerplate code because it’s super helpful…

  I call complete bullshite

  The program here will be “hello world” or something like that.

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  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Absolutely I can create a code for your app.

    void myApp(void) {
    // add the code for your app here;
    Return true;
    

    You may need to change the code above to fit your needs. Make sure you replace the comment with the proper code for your app to work.

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    • whileloop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Couldn’t even write a void method right, return true!

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      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        LMAO. At list it didn’t sudo void… (:

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  • ipha@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “hello world” as a service?

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      github.com/…/hello-world-as-a-service

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  • Ertebolle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    OTOH, if you take that hello world program and ask it to compose a themed cocktail menu around it, it'll cheerfully do that for you.

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  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It's great for things like "How do I write this kind of loop in this language" but when I asked it for something more complex like a class or a big-ish function it hallucinates. But it makes for a very fast way to get up to speed in a new language

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So just a little more time-consuming than just reading the online documentation.

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      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It's a lot less in my opinion, because you can just ask it a question rather than having to read and interpret things. Every programming tutorial in every language is going to waste my time explaining how loops and conditionals work, when all I want is how this language does them.

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    • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yea I ask it to show me examples of how to solve specific tasks. Not a whole app.

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  • kitonthenet@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can totally see the use case for boilerplate, but I’m also very very rarely writing new classes from scratch or whatever

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• KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The study said 86.66% of the generated software systems were “executed flawlessly.”

  But…

  Nevertheless, the study isn’t perfect: Researchers identified limitations, such as errors and biases in the language models, that could cause issues in the creation of software. Still, the researchers said the findings “may potentially help junior programmers or engineers in the real world” down the line.

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  • m_r_butts@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ah, there's the dream they're chasing. Chatbots write the code for free, and junior devs play janitor to the robots and fix it up. No more expensive senior devs! The savings can be used as an executive bonus.

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    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And when the reviews are terrible and end users start reporting unreal quantities of bugs, they’ll fire the junior devs. They should have fixed those!

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So… they failed 13.34% of their own unit tests?

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    • hayes_@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s a B+! Fire all our engineers immediately.

      • some tech CEO, somewhere

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      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Better than CyberPunk at release.

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  • radix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    🎵🎵 99 little bugs in the code, 99 bugs in the code, Fix one bug, compile it again, 101 little bugs in the code. 101 little bugs in the code, 101 bugs in the code, Fix one bug, compile it again, 103 little bugs in the code. 🎵🎵

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And how long did it take to compose the “assignments?” Humans can work with less precise instructions than machines, usually, and improvise or solve problems along the way or at least sense when a problem should be flagged for escalation and review.

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