ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution

Did you mean ``` {"foo":{"bar":"baz"}} ```

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By the way, have you had success at asking GPT to generate unit tests that include edge cases? I've been wondering about that.

Security by obscurity?

Speaking for myself, I used to use the crappy chat interface but I now exclusively use tooling I've built up around their API.

So, n=1, I'm using OpenAI much more, despite using chat.openai.com less.

Exactly; search engines give you those blue links and short descriptions of the search results which are not enough for you to grasp what is the website about. I think what search engines need to do is tackle the complexity of going through the results of a search engine. Google page rank seemed like a silver bullet back in the day but the websites which are the most popular are not necessarily of the best quality. What we need is to lower the complexity for casual users when they deal with search results.

On the other hand ChatGPT is like an answer machine that can give you satisfactory answer on your fist try but if not, you need to talk with it, push it and explore what answers it gives you, just like you said. I think ChatGPT type search engine will be more suitable for people who are "lazy" or for the people who don't have time to "Google" and go through search results and look around the web for the helpful and useful information.

I wanted to create a web app, something I haven't done in a very long time. Just a simple throwaway back-of-the napkin app for personal use. I described what I wanted it to do, and asked what might be a good frontend/backend. It listed a few, I narrowed it down even more. Ended up deciding on flask/quasar.

After helping me setup VS Code with the proper extensions for fancy editing, and guiding me through the basic quasar/flask setup, it then was able to help me immensely creating a basic login page for the app. Then it easily integrated openAI api into it with all the proper quasar sliders for tokens/temperature/etc. Then it created a pretty good CSS template for the app as well, and a color scheme that I was able to describe as "something on adobe color that is professional and x and x (friendly, warm, whatever you want to put in)". Everything worked flawlessly with very little fuss, and I'd never used flask or quasar before in my life. You can also delve VERY deep into how to make the app more secure, as I did for fun one evening even though it's not going to be internet facing.

Another thing I did was go over some pfSense documentation with it. I had some clarifying questions about HAProxy, as well as setting up Acme Certificates with my specific DNS provider. It was extremely helpful with both. It also taught me about nitty gritty settings in the Unbound DNS resolver in a way that's much more informative than the documentation, and helped me set up some internal domains for pihole, xen orchestra, etc with certificates. Also helped me separate out my networks (IoT, Guest network, etc), and taught me about Avahi to access my hue lights through mDNS.These are things I always wanted to do, I just never felt like going down a google rabbit hole getting mostly the wrong answers.

Last example I'll give is it was able to help me set up docker-compose plex within portainer that then uses my nvidia GPU for acceleration. The only thing I had to change from the instructions it gave was to get updated nvidia driver #s and I grabbed the latest docker-compose file. I'd never used portainer in my life before, nor do I have experience with nvidia drivers within linux, and I feel like learning it was many times faster being able to ask a chatbot question vs trying to google everything. Granted I still had to RTFM for the basics, as everyone should always do.

I think perhaps my use cases are a bit more "basic" than many HN users. Like I said I'm not asking it to do problems most humans wouldn't be able to do, as I know it isn't quite there yet. But for things like XCP-ng, portainer, linux scripts, learning software you've never used before, or even just framing a problem I'm having in steps I hadn't thought of it's been invaluable to me. For me it's like documentation you can ask clarifying questions to. And almost none of the things I've asked it would work at all if it were wrong, I would know immediately.