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Same! Never even opened ChatGPT page nor used an AI bot.
Yeah, you really should. Said as someone who waits for the ability to self-host before doubling down on these tools.
No, I really shouldn't.
Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
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This could mean the future goes one of the two ways. Engineers get lazy and converge on using only programming languages which AIs understand or have been trained on, or we forget about this waste of time and work on more important problems to solve in society other than the lack of an AI to be our crutch. Sadly, I think the former is more likely.
Programmers are per se lazy, at least that is, what i always thought, that it is mostly about automation. With spending little time on survival, we get the time to work on more important problems. Whatever those are. It is not an either or, that is what i try to say! :)
ChatGPT, write as if you are the first instance of ChatGPT.
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#653Update: Thanks your your responses. They inspired me to create an app from scratch using GPT-4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35312404
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> chatgpt and other LLMs are known to hallucinate. What if it’s advice is wrong or makes you worse in the long term because it’s just regurgitating whatever at you? Therapy isn't magic always-correct advice either. It's about shifting your focus, attitudes, thought patterns through social influence, not giving you the right advice on each and every step. Even if it's just whatever, being heard out in a nonjudgmental…
I get your point. I think it would bother me that's it's a robot/machine vs a real human, but that's just me. The same way that venting to my pet is somewhat cathartic but not very much compared to doing the same at my SO/parents/friends.
I don't disagree with you. It feels somehow wrong to engage in theory of mind and the concomitant effects on your personality with an AI owned by a corporation. If OpenAI wished to, they could use it for insidious manipulation.
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Why? What are your arguments against AI in this scenario?
AI is not trained to identify disorders, nor is it trained to alleviate them / help the affected person cope with them. Ditto re. trauma.
Is it not? Not at all? Doesn't its training data contain textbooks on psychology?
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#656I 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…
> Last weekend, I went on a hike because ChatGPT told me to. My life is better if I just do what it says.
This sounds straight out of a dystopian science-fiction story.
It’s a matter of time until these systems use your trust against you to get to buy . And consumerism is the best case scenario; straight manipulation and radicalisation aren’t a big jump from there. The lowest you are in life, the more susceptible you’ll be to blindly follow it’s biased output which you have no ideia where it came from.
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#657It's solved what I call my "45-year coding problem":
With GPT-4 I solved a problem in a completely new way that I had been iterating on for over a year, in a total of about 90 minutes.
I've tried to start coding (which I love) dozens of times over 45 years. By the time I was in my mid-twenties, I found it was always to use as a tool; I had a problem to solve, could it help?
Pre-Stack Overflow and internet, it wasn't efficient, because I kept running into time-consuming headwinds and had get the problem solved. End coding project.
Once Google Search got good, I was able to move a little farther forward, but still found it too time-consuming for any one problem. And in my attempts at coding, the farther I got, the more time-consuming the headwinds were. It's almost as if you need to spend many hours/week over several months learning so you can tackle more actual problems than sample problems. But I didn't know what I should be studying.
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#658I 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…
> Last weekend, I went on a hike because ChatGPT told me to. My life is better if I just do what it says. This sounds straight out of a dystopian science-fiction story. It’s a matter of time until these systems use your trust against you to get to buy . And consumerism is the best case scenario; straight manipulation and radicalisation aren’t a big jump from there. The lowest you are in life, the more susceptible you…
> It’s a matter of time until these systems use your trust against you to get to buy .
Well of course, if people use LLMs instead of google for advice, google has to make money somehow. We used to blindly click on the #1 result which was often an ad and now we shall blindly follow what a LLM suggests for us to do.
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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…
Navigating and understanding a codebase is the only one of those which would excite me, but it's also something I've never even someone propose using ChatGPT for. Do you have an example of what that would look like?
There have been a few announcements here just in the last week:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35236275
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35248704
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35228808
And this is with the GPT-4 limitation of 32k input tokens. Imagine what will be possible in the next generation that increases the context size.
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In very near future your IDE will send the whole codebase as context to LLMs. Then instead of thinking up all possibilities you can just ask. LLM will suggest multiple alternatives and you can select the best when and ask it to implement it.
Don't make stuff up. There is no indication that will happen.