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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MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 11 months agoI 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.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
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
redballooon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If it spits out the wrong syntax my compiler will tell me immediately.
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.
hswolf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
had a similar problem searching for gcloud commands
redballooon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Oh yes. With that sort of thing better double check each time.
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
foo@programming.dev 11 months ago
You can say the same for Google
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.