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gulikoza | 3 years ago

I'm good at what I do (at least I think I am), yet I don't know what to use it for.

For specific questions, I find (and trust) the results faster on Stack Overflow. The code that ChatGPT produces is fairly good and my boss is impressed when I showed him the answer of How to parallel filter a List in Java. Yet, filtering a List is a far cry from building an app (which my boss thinks ChatGPT can do, given enough explanation what to do).

And any other general questions, while again, impressive...are too general for someone with a specific knowledge and useful only for somebody not familiar with the subject. Maybe the trick is how the answers are presented with confidence and giving the feeling that the converser actually knows something about the subject, yet I know it just machine generated babbling without any real understanding...

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cdchn|3 years ago

StackOverflow seems to be the ultimate litmus test for ChatGPT at this point for coding work. Pros: it customizes the code more than StackOverflow will. Cons: Subtle errors that can be difficult to spot at first glance, but could be easily caught when run/tested. Like for example I will see it trying to import functions from modules, when the function doesn't exist in that module but another one, and the code is mostly written like its okay otherwise.