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Re: Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?

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Post by Mekulpa »

leonheld wrote: post #16

It's a bit surprising seeing all the positive replies to this thread. In my experience (using GPT-3), the time I spend debugging the code generated by the AI is almost the same as if I was to write it correctly in one go. The comprehension aspect kinda helps me sometimes, like when I need to understand some obscure shell script.

I paid for it and use gpt4.

I didn't see a Json format error and chatgpt just told me exactly what the issue was.

It also helps me rubber duck debugging Things

Re: Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?

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Post by Mekulpa »

ChatGTP wrote: post #14
pqdbr wrote: post #10

As a web developer who manages his own servers, ChatGPT has been a godsend for things like creating Ansible roles and docker / docker compose files.

Why is a web developer managing their own servers in 2023?

Cost?

Persude of knowledge?

Why do you ask a question like this on a hacker news forum?

Start being more curious!

Re: Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?

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Post by bamboozled »

yoav wrote: post #7

I use copilot in vscode. It watches what I type and inline suggests the next line or code block based on what I’ve been doing and say a function name or the events I’ve not yet added listeners for. I hit tab to accept. It saves me at least 20% of the time i would spend typing and is insanely good. I have copilotx conversation in vscode that is aware of my codebase and active file. I can quickly get up to speed with a…

This is wildly more efficient than talking with a human where I have the overhead of social dynamics and navigating their communication quirks.

I can see that this was beneficial for you, which is nice.

I can also see this being a huge, huge problem for team dynamics. Didn't like talking to people before? Well now you never have to again! You can go off on your own and generate entire new architectures, codebases, whatever...and and then discuss with the team,,,if the team dynamics sucked before...playing nice with others is what life is about, I even think "AI" may have to learn this lesson too.

Re: Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?

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Post by skinnyarms »

* Copilot is great

* Great for sanity checking your plans or designs (ex: "What are the best ways of securing a multi-tenant application?")

* Great for bootstrapping a presentation or pitch (ex: "Please create a presentation outline about Istio, intended for an audience unfamiliar with Service Meshes"

* Simple questions/reminders (ex: "How can I make it so a bash script exits on error?")

edit: formatting

Re: Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?

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Post by ibbih »

leonheld wrote: post #16

It's a bit surprising seeing all the positive replies to this thread. In my experience (using GPT-3), the time I spend debugging the code generated by the AI is almost the same as if I was to write it correctly in one go. The comprehension aspect kinda helps me sometimes, like when I need to understand some obscure shell script.

Use GPT-4.

Re: Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?

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Post by mtmail »

Mekulpa wrote: post #23
ChatGTP wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is a web developer managing their own servers in 2023?

Cost? Persude of knowledge? Why do you ask a question like this on a hacker news forum? Start being more curious!

> Start being more curious!

The user was curious and asked a question.

Re: Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?

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Post by MrThoughtful »

I use Gnod Search which has AI tools next to the common search engines like Google, DuckDuckGo etc:

https://www.gnod.com/search

For half of my searches or so, I get better answers via some of the AI search tools.

Especially for code. When i just want to quickly know "how to do x in language y". Like 'how do i filter a list in python so i only get elements with the attribute city="london"':

https://www.gnod.com/search/?q=how+do+i+filter+a+list+in+pyt...

For these types of queries, AI is a godsend.

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