Comment on A good deal of IT work, too

if_only@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I find myself going to ChatGPT for this stuff now.

  “I’m trying to do something like [concept]. What is that called and can you give me an example”

  Usually I get my results faster and easier than Google.

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  • hswolf@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    be careful using it as your only source of truth, even more so when you don’t know what you’re searching for exactly

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    • redballooon@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If it spits out the wrong syntax my compiler will tell me immediately.

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      • punkwalrus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        While I never had it happen, it could give you wrong command line switches that do damage. For example, when I asked how I could list volumes attached to an AWS instance, it gave me a “modify-volume” command instead of “describe-volume” command. Thankfully, I caught that before I cut and paste it.

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      • psud@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s bad enough at programming that you can often see the problems without the help of the compiler

        Last thing I asked it for, after the fourth draft still had undeclared variables and called imaginary libraries (which if they existed would be great)

        It was good for coming up with a nice structure for a small program

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    • foo@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can say the same for Google

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    • Nahdahar@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can ask it for source now with browser integration. Previously the browser extension was a separate model with gpt3.5 which was pretty bad, now it’s just integrated into gp4. It works a million times better.

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had an emailed a question that I didn’t really know where to go with, so I asked Copilot to answer the email factually. Sent that email with a note of ai origin, but it was close enough and got us into right track

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