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People who use ChatGPT to spit out code as a method of learning software engineering are going to be seriously deficient in fundamentals like performance. I've already worked with way too many engineers who copy/paste code without understanding what it does.
I think this is currently an open question. It may turn out that ChatGPT results in a new generation of developers who produce terrible code, full of flaws, with no understanding of how it actually works. Or... it might be that ChatGPT helps newcomers get over that horrendous initial learning curve, start by writing bad code... and then get better at it. I'm currently cautiously optimistic that the latter scenario is…
I'm not sure GPT helps with any of those yet, as it seems to be more likely to spit out incorrect-to-sortof-okayish so far.
There's a long gap from: I built a podcast search website to: Staying in any company right now is a negative return. We humans are too easily impressed by tricks, and are too willing to extrapolate them to fantasy land. GPT can certainly accomplish an impressive variety of small tasks. Whether it can build large-scale systems that will power tomorrow's world is uncharted territory. Can you build something meaningful,…
> GPT can certainly accomplish an impressive variety of small tasks. Whether it can build large-scale systems that will power tomorrow's world is uncharted territory. There is an INCREDIBLE amount of opaque BI that can be unlocked with GPT/AI etc. I have already used it to get some extremely quick market infor about certain things. AI is going to make a lot of people smarter, much faster and cheaper than current inst…
GPT4: In the context provided, 'BI' likely stands for 'Business Intelligence'.
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Intent worries me less! It’s the PHP days all over again - lots of new coders (good thing!), copying insecure code (VERY bad thing!), and it won’t end well.
Yes... The last time this happened we got Facebook and the world is still recovering from that
Google has been using this stuff for years, OpenAI has done the world a great service by opening it up.
AI is the new Linux
No single entity can own it or control it
This will impact everything in tech
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If you don't want to pay for ChatGPT Plus, you can use an alternative client (e.g. https://www.chatbotui.com ) with an API key fairly cheaply.
Wait. I have an API key. Is GPT-4 available already?
I haven't tried it. As always, YMMV.
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This sounds to me like you have no idea how to properly integrate LLMs into your workflow. Just because they’re not useful for changing large code bases doesn’t mean they can’t be valuable. A few examples of things I’ve used LLMs for: Writing bash scripts to automate various parts my workflow Quickly interpreting complex regex Tutoring me on how to use poorly documented APIs Proof reading important emails Everything…
> Writing bash scripts to automate various parts my workflow Would you share some of those? Bash is fraught with gotchas and intricacies and seldom have I read Bash code where I couldn’t immediately spot flaws. There’s often something which left unchecked may come back to bite you later. I’m skeptical the LLM code would be any better, since it’s (presumably) trained on a corpus of subpar code. But I could be wrong.
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I think this is currently an open question. It may turn out that ChatGPT results in a new generation of developers who produce terrible code, full of flaws, with no understanding of how it actually works. Or... it might be that ChatGPT helps newcomers get over that horrendous initial learning curve, start by writing bad code... and then get better at it. I'm currently cautiously optimistic that the latter scenario is…
In my experience newcomers and junior engineers don't get better by writing more bad code. They learn mostly by 3 methods. 1) finding flaws in their code the hard way (slow) 2) getting careful feedback from more experienced people (has to be done well) and 3) reading better code for a problem they already understand. I'm not sure GPT helps with any of those yet, as it seems to be more likely to spit out incorrect-to-…
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I’ve been using it a lot for programming, but I also have a security background and it will often generate insecure code. I’ll point it out and tell it to fix and it will. So be careful if you don’t want AI-generated sql intentions!
Different people write code of different quality, and we'd expect LLMs to imitate the median quality of code. So it's clear that if you have a background in something then it will generate worse code than you would - however, if you'd compare this code with something written by a new junior hire, how would it compare? IMHO there are many people who are objectively below median, and for them I'd expect that a LLM can…
There was a recent article on Slashdot titled something how metaverse may increase the gdp by like 2 or 3 percent. It was obviously laughed at. It's actually LLMs that will do this, and easily.
>>> Copying and pasting documentation and APIs to GPT-4, asking it to write interfaces based on them.
Sounds very interesting but I cant quite work out how to phrase the prompt