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Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

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Re: Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

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Post by RigelKentaurus »

throwgfgfd25 wrote: post #7

Do they not understand that the example text they are using in the first image is so laughably banal that it makes an entire segment of its potential audience not want to engage at all? Shoot me in the face if my own writing is ever that bad. ETA: just to be clear... I am not a great writer. Or a bad one. But this is a particular kind of bad . The kind we should all try to avoid.

The text i supposed to be banal, so that ChatGPT can make it better. It's like the before picture in an exercise course.

Re: Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

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Post by gdhkgdhkvff »

danielovichdk wrote: post #38

No thank you. As with anything else that is helpful, there is a balancing act to be aware of. This is too much for my taste. Just like github copilot is too much. It's too dumb like this. But chatgpt is insanely helpful in a context where I really need to learn something I am deep diving into or where I need an extra layer of direction. I do not use the tool for coding up front. I use them for iterations on narrow su…

I haven’t used it yet, but couldn’t you just copy paste a chunk of existing code into canvas and have it help there? If so, that does seem more useful than the original of just pasting a lot of code into chat and hoping it pulls the correct context from your description. If I’m understanding it correctly, I’m canvas you can paste a bunch of code and then ask for help on specific contexts within the code by highlighting it. If done properly that seems super useful to me.

Re: Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

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Post by cdchn »

I don't care about not having IDE integration with this - this is a solved problem that I don't care about. It would be nice to have two-way synchronization though so I could run code locally, edit it with my local editor (not IDE) and sync it back up to make more changes in ChatGPT.

Re: Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

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Post by Benjaminsen »

cschneid wrote: post #9

It seems sort of weird to keep pushing the chat interface so hard into programming. For 'real' usage, it seems like Cursor or Aider approaches work better, since you end up having AI write code, you manually edit, AI updates further, and back and forth. In a chat interface, copy/pasting updated code gets old fast. On the other hand, I did have good luck w/ Anthropic's version of this to make a single page react app w…

Pretty sure this will dynamically rewrite the code. No copy pasting needed. We have something very similar at FRVR.ai

Re: Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

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Post by ren_engineer »

cj wrote: post #4

This is cool, but I wish it were integrated into tools already used for coding and writing rather than having it be a separate app. This also demonstrates the type of things Google could do with Gemini integrated into Google Docs if they step up their game a bit. Honestly I’m scratching my head on OpenAI’s desire to double down on building out their consumer B2C use cases rather than truly focussing on being the infr…

ChatGPT itself is them copying their own API users, this is just them building out more features already built by users. My guess is they know they don't have a long term edge in models alone, so they are going to rely on expanding ChatGPT for better margins and to keep getting training data from users. They obviously want to control the platform, not integrate with other platforms
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