It’s pretty great at writing short utility scripts and code. And it’s fantastic at explaining errors, warnings, and log file dumps.
That’s what I use it for.
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drdabbles@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Was it ever good?
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 1 year ago
drdabbles@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Strongly disagree with explaining things, because you don’t know if it’s correct. And you have to validate code it creates, so 🤷♂️
I’ve asked it to produce C for a specific product, and it effectively summarized and reproduced existing example code. Being able to so easily discover a source it used for training revealed the entire trick at once.
dan1101@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s good at writing sentences. The content of the sentences may or may not be real/true.
drdabbles@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m just not impressed with guessing which words to use next. Especially when I have to verify what it produces.