Mentioned in another thread - I use it to write unit tests for me.
I give it a function, tell it to write a test and it largely gets it right most of the time. I have to tweak it but the time spent is a lot less than if I did it myself
Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
411–420 of 752 posts
Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
#412Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I really doubt it would be faster to write code manually, Not faster or slower but at what quality? At least every time I've tried to ask GPT 3 & 4 to write anything it's always missing things or not even close to the optimal way that I have to look up the docs and fill in the gaps, which often takes just as long as starting from scratch. > now basic GitHub Copilot is that it greatly improves their productivity Per…
Which language is it struggling with?
I've had similar experiences when testing it out with Rust, Java and Go. Once I got beyond basic stuff, very little of the output was of a quality that I would consider remotely acceptable, and the work to bring it up to standard was basically equivalent to just writing the code in the first place (which, come on, typing is not even the time-consuming part of engineering).
Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
#413I have a few conversations going. My most productive is a therapy session with ChatGPT as therapist. I told it my values, my short term goals, and some areas in my life where I'd like to have more focus and areas where I would like to spend less time. Some days we are retrospective and some days we are planning. My therapist gets me back on track, never judges, and has lots of motivational ideas for me. All aligned w…
i did the same! i received very helpful and reasonable responses.
Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
#414[deleted]
Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
#415I am a full time language student, and I use GPT to have "conversations" in the language. I can give it a subject (e.g., going through airport customs) and practice my conversation skills. What's also fun is I can feed it a list of vocab that I want it to use, and it'll find ways to put the words in the conversation. I also ask it to go back, look at my responses, and correct for grammar etc. It's shocking how adept…
> I can feed it a list of vocab that I want it to use, and it'll find ways to put the words in the conversation. I told it to write a story for me using only the top 100 most common words in Hungarian. First, it complained about how the concept of a "word" is ambiguous in Hungarian and that it's difficult to know what the top 100 words are. Then it told me a story using only common vocabulary. It wasn't grammatically…
This gave me an idea for a conversation:
Me: "Can you write a gramatically correct sentence using only the word "buffalo"?"
GPT: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
Me: "Now can you write a sentence with the same meaning but only using synonyms of the world buffalo?"
GPT: "Bison bison Bison bison confuse confuse Bison bison."
Well... almost!
Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
#416Encouraged by the comments here, I tried a few prompts for it to do something useful for our company. Most failed, but it's apparently great at improving our documentation. Here's the prompt and the result as an example: > Can you improve the following text for clarity: "When deploying into the enterprise, there is a lot of flexibility when it comes to deciding how you structure the deployment, whether you want to ru…
The prompt can make a big difference. For example:
"When deploying into the enterprise, there is a lot of flexibility when it comes to deciding how you structure the deployment, whether you want to run supporting services on premise, and which ones (if any) you choose to deploy. The decisions depend on how you plan to use our software and your security requirements. We’ll be happy to discuss these with you at [email]."
I rewrote the above. The recipient read the new version much more easily than they would have for the original:
When deploying our software into the enterprise, there are many options to consider. Depending on how you plan to use our software and your security requirements, you can decide which supporting services to run on-premise. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at [email].
Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
#417I have a few conversations going. My most productive is a therapy session with ChatGPT as therapist. I told it my values, my short term goals, and some areas in my life where I'd like to have more focus and areas where I would like to spend less time. Some days we are retrospective and some days we are planning. My therapist gets me back on track, never judges, and has lots of motivational ideas for me. All aligned w…
The robots are even coming for therapists. Yikes!
Considering I straight up was not able to get a therapist appointment in my city or outskirts, sign me the f** up. The first company that tunes the model for this and offers a good UX (maybe with a voice interface) will make millions.
Also, I expect a lot of the value here to come from just putting your thoughts and feelings into words. It would be like journaling on steroids.
Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
#418Mentioned in another thread - I use it to write unit tests for me. I give it a function, tell it to write a test and it largely gets it right most of the time. I have to tweak it but the time spent is a lot less than if I did it myself
Wouldn’t the other way round be even more productive?
Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
#419I've used it mostly as a tool to look up documentation or man pages. Instead of opening hundreds of tabs to do my research I just have a thread going with a theme in ChatGPT.
Of course, I don't blindly trust what ChatGPT gives me but I know it's around that ballpark and I double check and do more googling or research if I'm ever in doubt.
Funnily enough, I haven't used it as a tool to learn completely brand new things as I can't gauge if what's ChatGPT is giving me is 100% accurate.
Re: Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
#420Useful things: - As a thesaurus - What's the name of that "thing" that does "something" - kind of like fuzzy matching - A starting point for writing particular functions. For example, I wanted a certain string-manipulation function written in C, and it gave me a decent skeleton. However they're almost always very inefficient, so I have to optimize them. Things I've tried, that others seem to be blown away by, that I…
> What's the name of that "thing" that does "something"
I could remember the name of one adult entertainment star. I thought this is where I can finally put this ChatGPT to use. It told me anything adult is off-limits. I’m glad that OpenAI can decide what’s good and bad for us.