I see plenty of hot takes on Twitter about GPT-4 and how its going to kill jobs and give us super powers. What I am not seeing are practical and specific applications outside of "Write code" or "Summarize articles". What examples do you have where someone used GPT-4/AI tech that had a high degree of utility for a specific job to be done? The guy who found his pets illness after the vet gave up is a good specific example applied to a very narrow use case.
Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
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Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
#2I've got a thread going with ChatGPT about an app I'm building. It knows all of the libraries I'm using, and has seen the main App component, the Router and many of the key components. I'm asking it about every task I need to do, feature I need to implement, bug I need to fix. Basically rubber ducking with it and talking through everything I'm doing as if it were my coworker. It's reducing my time to solve problems by about 80%. I'm able to do 4-6 times as much in a day as I could without ChatGPT when I was stuck figuring out everything tediously on my own. For context, I'm a full stack developer with about 15 years of experience, so I know what I'm doing. ChatGPT is just taking care of a lot of the trial and error and figuring out how to use different libraries or implement certain algorithms.
Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
#3It can explain stuff to you in exactly the way you need to, and walk you through problems. You can ask it to create quizzes / guided questions for you which helps in organizing your own thoughts. Another application I find quite remarkable is asking it for good prompts for image generation models. The biggest benefit is that you're not starting from zero when entering a new problem space / domain.
Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
#4I'm using it to write WordPress plugins that can be used in place of expensive yearly subscription plugins.
Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
#5It can explain stuff to you in exactly the way you need to, and walk you through problems. You can ask it to create quizzes / guided questions for you which helps in organizing your own thoughts. Another application I find quite remarkable is asking it for good prompts for image generation models. The biggest benefit is that you're not starting from zero when entering a new problem space / domain.
But how do you assert the information is correct? It could be dangerous to blindly trust an imperfect tool as a teacher.
Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
#6I've got a thread going with ChatGPT about an app I'm building. It knows all of the libraries I'm using, and has seen the main App component, the Router and many of the key components. I'm asking it about every task I need to do, feature I need to implement, bug I need to fix. Basically rubber ducking with it and talking through everything I'm doing as if it were my coworker. It's reducing my time to solve problems b…
So I have yet to use ChatGPT (I know, I know), but are you able to keep long running threads with it? How does it know context about your app? Are you simply copying and pasting code?
This is really cool to hear about.
Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
#7Write my PhD thesis, even incorporating the written and oral feedback of my advisor, which I record and use as input.
Yes it was a bad joke, one I did not think I could make just 1 year earlier.
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#8I'm using it to write WordPress plugins that can be used in place of expensive yearly subscription plugins.
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Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
#9I've got a thread going with ChatGPT about an app I'm building. It knows all of the libraries I'm using, and has seen the main App component, the Router and many of the key components. I'm asking it about every task I need to do, feature I need to implement, bug I need to fix. Basically rubber ducking with it and talking through everything I'm doing as if it were my coworker. It's reducing my time to solve problems b…
Can you describe the structure of your conversation? Did you describe what libraries you were using and send the full code of the main app component?
Re: Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
#10Finding lots of value in drafting emails, especially for topics or asks I'm not as used to dealing with, like asking for extensions or blaming other teams for blockers. Obviously takes a few iterations ('be less verbose!') but I get a lot of value in seeing a couple different ways to word the request and how to frame the background facts to come to the conclusion I want.
Started using it as a coaching tool for new hires who aren't used to the world of corporate memos yet.