Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

Post by TheNicholasNick » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 7:24 AM UTC

imiric wrote: post #593

plorkyeran wrote: post #583

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If you eliminated 100% of my code typing time with perfect effectiveness I think that'd make me maybe 10% or 20% more productive? Turning ideas of what the code should be doing into code just isn't a bottleneck for me in the first place. Are there people who just add net 1000 lines of code to whatever they're working on every single day or something?

I keep seeing this point made, but AI tools don't save you just typing time. They save you time you would previously use to lookup documentation, search the web and Stack Overflow answers. They save you time it takes to navigate and understand a codebase, write boilerplate code and tests, propose implementation suggestions, etc. Dismissing them on the basis that they just save you typing time is not seeing their full…

there are people who code the whole thing in their head and have perfect recall of all language/api docs/references/syntax/features as that is how their brain works. ie they don't even type code until this step has occurred for them.

I think that is a small percentage of the dev community, so for me and people that don't operate like that, these tools are a game changer as you point out. I don't take what ChatGPT says at face value, I've got 15years of experience I'm weighting results against as well...

chatgpt's version of the above: Coding entirely in one's head is rare. Most developers need external resources, making development tools invaluable. While ChatGPT's input is valuable, it should be balanced against personal experience and expertise.

Post by ibrahimsow1 » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 9:46 AM UTC

TrapLord_Rhodo wrote: post #493

hcentelles wrote: post #240

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To keep the "memory", do you pass the embeddings along with the new text prompt in an API call? How do you combine embeddings and text prompts? I don't know much about this, sorry if the question sounds silly.

use llama index: https://gpt-index.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html The below code takes a list of questions from an excel, and answers each one based on the directory I passed in. I use this for answering Statement of Works for proposals i write as a first path. Usually, I will have a number of different directorys that i pass in to 'Talk' to different intellegences and get a couple different answers for each pro…

Hey, is it alright if you explain this in a bit more detail. I've playing around with llama-index myself. Do you have multiple indices? Or do you run each question through and get multiple responses. Isn't that quite expensive?

How do you also deal with the formatting of the various excel files. Would love to see the source code for this if you are willing to share?

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