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CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Somehow you hit an unpopular opinion landmine with the greybeard devs.

For the greybeard devs: Try asking ChatGPT to write you some Arduino code to do a specific task. Even if you don’t know how to write code for an Arduino, ChatGPT will get you 95% of the way there with the proper libraries and syntax.

No way in hell I’m digging through forums and code repos to blink an led and send out a notification through a web hook when a sensor gets triggered. AI obviously can’t do everything for you if you’ve never coded anything before, but it can do a damn good job of translating your knowledge of one programming language into every other programming language available.

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kogasa@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s great for jumping into something you’re very unfamiliar with. Unfortunately, if you often find yourself very unfamiliar with day to day tasks, you’re probably incompetent. (Or maybe a butterfly who gets paid to learn new things every day.)

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- ByGourou@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Getting paid to learn new things everyday at work is a dream, I don’t see the issues
  
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  - kogasa@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The issue is it’s a dream.
    
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sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
BIIIIG problem: The last 5%.

Did ChatGPT just hallucinate it? Does it exist but it isn't used like ChatGPT says? Does it exist but it doesn't do what ChatGPT thinks it does?

I use ChatGPT sometimes to help out with stuff at home (I've tried it for work stuff but the stuff I work on is niche enough that it purely hallucinates), and I've ended up running in circles for hours because the answer I got ended up in this uncanny valley: Correct enough that it isn't immediately obviously wrong, but incorrect enough that it won't work, it can't work, and you're going to really have to put a lot of work in to figure that out.