I have been using GPT for programming a lot and it made me realize how vague I am when I describe a problem.
I think my communications skills have been improving a bit as a result, or at least I am becoming more explicit about assumptions.
What I want to do is obvious to me in my head, and the English sentence I produce seems to match it, but it's only obvious if you already have the idea in your head! Otherwise, there's often many other valid interpretations for the same sentence.
Turns out the only unambiguous way to express a program is... in code!
(But asking for approximately the right thing and complaining until it fixes it is much faster :)
andai|2 years ago
I think my communications skills have been improving a bit as a result, or at least I am becoming more explicit about assumptions.
What I want to do is obvious to me in my head, and the English sentence I produce seems to match it, but it's only obvious if you already have the idea in your head! Otherwise, there's often many other valid interpretations for the same sentence.
Turns out the only unambiguous way to express a program is... in code!
(But asking for approximately the right thing and complaining until it fixes it is much faster :)