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• Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Seriously?

  If I google for example:

  how to do loops in c#

  The first result is www.w3schools.com/cs/cs_for_loop.php

  In the time it took me to get to that ChatGPT would still be writing its reply.

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

    Right, but you can't give it the variable names you're using and have it fill them in, and if you want to do something inside that loop with

    I can ask ChatGPT "Write me a loop in C# that will add the variable value_increase to the variable current_value and exit when current_value is equal to or greater than the variable limit_value, with all the variables being floats"

    You won't find that answer immediately on the Internet, and you're more likely to make errors synthesizing the new syntax.

    But you do you, I'll keep using ChatGPT and looking like a miracle worker.

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    • Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Right, but you can’t give it the variable names you’re using and have it fill them in, and if you want to do something inside that loop with

      Why are you actively trying to avoid learning how to write the loop? Are you planning to have ChatGPT fill in your loop templates for the rest of your life?

      But you do you, I’ll keep using ChatGPT and looking like a miracle worker.

      It’s going to be slower overall than just using the reference and learning how to do it. I really, really am skeptical that a developer at the level where they need that feature is going to seem like a miracle worker to anyone other than people who are just impressed when you can do anything with a computer.

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

        Why are you actively trying to avoid learning how to write the loop? Are you planning to have ChatGPT fill in your loop templates for the rest of your life?

        First, how is this different from having your IDE fill in your loop templates?

        Second, no, of course I learn how to do it and then copy/paste from my existing code like a normal person.

        Third, this is much more customizable. The example I gave is pretty simple, but you can explain algorithms to ChatGPT and have it figure it out.

        Finally, I'm usually doing this for a customer in a language I'll never use again. Last week it was LabView. My role has me writing proofs-of-concept for customers frequently so I'm not going to learn something I'll never use again.

        It’s going to be slower overall than just using the reference and learning how to do it.

        Not when you're not familiar with the syntax and don't have an IDE set up for it.

        other than people who are just impressed when you can do anything with a computer.

        This happens in my job a lot more than I'm comfortable with.

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    • Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If writing simple loops with ChatGPT makes you a miracle worker then you might have other problems than AI.

      And even simple things break down when you ask it about using library functions (it likes to hallucinate heavily there).

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

        It's not that writing loops does it, it's that I can ask ChatGPT to hand me pre-assembled parts that I can snap together instead of typing them out with my squishy human fingers. And I can do it for pretty much any language without too many syntax errors.

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