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Because Microsoft understands corporate needs, and can provide very specific guarantees to corporate clients.
Only if you trust Microsoft to guarantee that none of your data will ever make it out of their data centers.
I've tried it, and I don't like it. There's too much confabulation to be useful as code completion, and any task more complicated than that results in logic errors most of the time. Code completion was fine without LLMs, and solving problems myself usually ends up being quicker than trying to coerce an LLM into doing it correctly and then verifying that the output is actually correct. The one time I used an LLM in my…
Sorry but if you then have to check that the list of the Countries is correct and complete, is it not faster to get a list from somewhere safe and then do your usual "Find-Replace" around the separator?
Edit: I just did it for a test: it took less than two minutes, without rush (search engine; open page; find data; open spreadsheet; paste table; paste column in text editor; find-replace around '\n').
LLMs can be revolutionary for approaching areas you do not know well ("how do you do this with this library, provide short working code"). But you need to use Retrieval Augmented Generation (or bare LLMs will either invent the nonexistent or present solutions to non-proposed problems).
Two examples...
1. Recently wanted to build a Chrome plugin and never built one before. Used o1-preview to build it all for me.
2. Wanted to build a visualization of the world with color-coded maps using D3. Again, hadn't used D3 much in the past... Claude basically wrote all the code for me and then I just had to make edits to fit my site/template.
People who use code completion LLMs: is your company running a local install, or are they fine with your code getting shared with LLMs in the cloud?
Writing documentation, amongst other things, has been a save for me. I use it to understand new codebases quickly, create the documentation boilerplate for the code I'm working on that needs better docs, or update/rewrite outdated ones. When the codebase fits in the context window, it's simple. But even if I'm working on a larger thing, it takes a bit of RAG-alike effort to build knowledge topology, and then it's sup…
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Only if you trust Microsoft to guarantee that none of your data will ever make it out of their data centers.
Microsoft has been in the corporate game for longer than most people on this site have been alive. They understand what corporate clients want, and which guarantees they require . And they go to great lengths to provide what they guarantee.
It’s 10x easier and more direct to just do it myself, distilling my mental model into precise instructions.
Maybe it works better for languages with more boilerplate- I use Ruby which is quite terse.
I write more than I code, but I use ChatGPT a lot throughout the day. I am integrating AI translations into my custom static site generator. I will test the outcome heavily before putting my name (and a big warning) on my translated content, but the early results look good. Getting it right is a lot harder than piping the page through ChatGPT. Everything needs to be translated from the UI strings to the URL slugs. My…
I like this premise but don’t like the fact that the answer could be completely false - fabricated and presented with equal confidence as the algorithm has zero understanding, just stats.
I write more than I code, but I use ChatGPT a lot throughout the day. I am integrating AI translations into my custom static site generator. I will test the outcome heavily before putting my name (and a big warning) on my translated content, but the early results look good. Getting it right is a lot harder than piping the page through ChatGPT. Everything needs to be translated from the UI strings to the URL slugs. My…
> It’s amazing to get a short, clear answer to work from, instead of sifting through barely relevant, spammy search results. I like this premise but don’t like the fact that the answer could be completely false - fabricated and presented with equal confidence as the algorithm has zero understanding, just stats.