• towerful@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    Reminds me of the story of the old engineer asked to come in and fix some machine in a factory.

    The engineer inspects the machine, marks it with some chalk, then strikes the chalk mark with a hammer.
    The machine works again.
    The company asks for an itemised invoice after seeing the initial invoice for $10k.
    To which they received:

    • hitting chalk mark with hammer: $1.
    • knowing where to place the chalk mark: $9,999

    GPT suffers from garbage-in garbage-out just as much as a search engine does.
    Knowing how to find search results to fix your specific situation is a skill.
    Utilising GPT for such a task is equally a skill. With the added bonus of GPT randomly pulling the perfect API/Library out of its ass

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Yeah I feel like once people realize AI chatbots like ChatGPT are largely just search engines with AutoTldrBot built in, they’ll be better at using them. ChatGPT is great for bouncing ideas off of or rubber-ducking through a solution. But just like with StackOverflow answers, you as the developer need to be able to recognize when ChatGPT is just spouting garbage, when it’s getting you close to the answer, what adjustments you need to make to make its answers work for your situation, etc. In it’s current state, it will never just magically hand you a fully developed, robust, well-integrated, complete solution though, as much as tech CEOs want it to.

      • froztbyte@awful.systems
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        2 months ago

        you as the developer need to be able to recognize when ChatGPT is just spouting garbag

        easy: all the time