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How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?

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Re: How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?

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Tell your coworkers to ask ChatGPT "why does this solution doesn't work? and what is wrong with it?" You will be surprised how often ChatGPT will correctly explain why or how the answer it has given you is utter nonsense. It is fascinating in a way.

This is the third response I've seen like this. Is this some sort of training material? "What to say when people doubt the machine" pamphlet? "Just squeeze the stone harder" is bad advice for getting blood.

That you think this is weird advice or advice that makes LLMs look good shows that your position is one of reflective opposition rather than understanding and experience with the things. If you interact with them much it's an obvious course of action. It will come up with nonsense, and if you tell it it's nonsense it will immediately apologise and explain why the nonsense was nonsense. It will come up with good information, and if you tell it the information was bad it will immediately apologise and offer nonsense explaining why. You can easily get it in a loop of it agreeing that solution A is bad and offering solution B, then agreeing that we previously excluded solution B and offering solution A instead. It is a very quick way to get an intuitive understanding of their limitations.

Re: How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?

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This is the third response I've seen like this. Is this some sort of training material? "What to say when people doubt the machine" pamphlet? "Just squeeze the stone harder" is bad advice for getting blood.

If I understand correctly, you're not happy with the way ChatGPT can realise it's own mistake? or that it makes the mistake? I am not really sure, what is the problem exactly?

it doesn't "realize its own mistake", it requires negative feedback from the user to spur it into "apologizing" and trying to fix the "mistake(s)". It doesn't matter if the mistake is real or imagined.

even the uncensored (less RLHF'd) models do this - apologize after negative feedback and attempt to fix.

And "it's" only means "it is", the possessive is "its". You probably knew that, but didn't realize your own mistake without negative feedback.

Re: How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?

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I’ve been thinking about the future of this type of “AI fatigue”. Microsoft 365 Copilot has embedded this feature in Outlook, Teams, Word, etc.

I’m concerned that people’s desire and ability to read content from coworkers will significantly decrease, because…why spend my life reading something that “Bob” didn’t even write?

I’m not the only one thinking about this. M365 Copilot even has a “Make it sound like me” button…

Re: How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?

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I think it's a fundamentally flawed premise of the site: that answers ought to be self-contained and all else is noise. No debate, no commentary. That's why they reject opinion-based questions. But not all things in life are cut and dried. I get it, though; subjectivity makes it difficult to promote quality answers.

I get the theory, but I've seen the effects of that decision. The pre-objectivity police StackOverflow was sooo much more useful (2010ish). 85% of the top 1000 questions had incredibly well written and insightful answers to subjective questions. Things like "How do I become a better software engineer?" which is far more useful than "How can I rename a local Git branch?" For a time these bled out into other smaller st…

I learned so much as a young dev in 2009 when I first used Stackoverflow. Experts poured their hearts out and shared so much. Now the busybodies are there to police everything and what are you left with... a dead site with nothing but hall monitors! What a shame for the next generation of developers.

Re: How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?

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dang has nothing to do with it.

I think they meant dang, the interjection or exclamation, not all mighty dang! Praise be.

Correct! (dang please don't ban me!)

Re: How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?

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I'd say tell them to ask GPT why it won't work. It'll say something like "You're right, I've made a mistake...". This should illustrate that it can be helpful, but it's just aiming to please whether or not the solution is workable or sane.

Just asking "Does that work?" can demonstrate this. Slightly contrived example (I've trimmed the ChatGPT output down - it gives some warnings about code readability and that it only has knowledge up to 2022 that might be useful if the code worked at all): > User: how can I pass two parameters to a hugo partial as positional parameters (without using a dict)? > ChatGPT: If you want to pass parameters as positional arg…

Have you tried asking it if it works when it gives a correct response? :)

Re: How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?

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The whole forum is basically drama bait. Top questions are "how do I deal with employee who slept with my wife?", "Criticized for doing my job too well" etc. None of these questions are looking for answers but instead for validation or just a good ol' watercooler chat.

Imagine a company that bills hourly and you deliver in 1 hour instead of the budgeted 20

Just do something else for 19h then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions?

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Imagine a company that bills hourly and you deliver in 1 hour instead of the budgeted 20

Just do something else for 19h then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Exactly. But what if you push to the clients master (you actually have authority) before then because you don't know better.
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