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Offtopic: "Comments have been moved to chat; please do not continue the discussion here." What a shitty place that website has become, dang!
What matters is whether the suggestions are actually good, not where they came from.
A five year old asks chatGPT how to achieve world peace. The response is not only possible but easily affordable on a short timeline. Do I care that a 5 year old got it from ChatGPT? I guess not. A part of me would want all the adults on the planet to stop and acknowledge how tragically ineffectual they are, but as far as whether the source matters...nope.
Good point. Thanks for letting me think through it.
What matters is whether the suggestions are actually good, not where they came from.
The author makes it clear in the associated discussion that he doesn't immediately assume the suggestions are bad based on their source: > I take the time to understand and consider each suggestion, not rejecting anything out of hand, and share them with my team members (of which there are 17). The issue is the time it takes to explain _why_ these are bad ideas to non-technical (and skeptical) colleagues.
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The author makes it clear in the associated discussion that he doesn't immediately assume the suggestions are bad based on their source: > I take the time to understand and consider each suggestion, not rejecting anything out of hand, and share them with my team members (of which there are 17). The issue is the time it takes to explain _why_ these are bad ideas to non-technical (and skeptical) colleagues.
That sounds to me less of an issue with ChatGPT, and more with having colleagues that don't understand how to engage in reasonable discussion or evaluate information correctly.
I think my default response would be (regardless of the ChatGPT instructions):
"I looked it over and it doesn't actually work. ChatGPT is good for many high level things but when the specifics get technical, is struggles and invents solutions that don't exist; like a bloom filter. Ask ChaGPT what a bloom filter is."
Offtopic: "Comments have been moved to chat; please do not continue the discussion here." What a shitty place that website has become, dang!
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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The author makes it clear in the associated discussion that he doesn't immediately assume the suggestions are bad based on their source: > I take the time to understand and consider each suggestion, not rejecting anything out of hand, and share them with my team members (of which there are 17). The issue is the time it takes to explain _why_ these are bad ideas to non-technical (and skeptical) colleagues.
brandolini's law
What matters is whether the suggestions are actually good, not where they came from.
If not, I have a pacemaker I would like to sell you.
The only answer I received was from a guy who copy-pasted it into an "LLM detector" and uncritically copy-pasted the output for me. This response got several thumbs-up from management and mentors.
Geez, if I'd wanted that kind of crap answer I could've obtained it myself, without asking "experts" for their human opinions.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Yeah, they pretty much explicitly disclaim those questions that don't have cut and dried answers. But I think that means they never should have dipped into topics like "workplace", which has vanishingly few cut and dried topics.
Offtopic: "Comments have been moved to chat; please do not continue the discussion here." What a shitty place that website has become, dang!