I’ve been developing software professionally for over 20 years now, and ChatGPT/GH Copilot are the biggest productivity enhancers I’ve seen since code completion. Earlier today, I used ChatGPT to help me bang out a Ruby script to clone a repository, extract its documentation, and add those docs to another site that will serve as a centralized documentation source for a collection of projects. I know Ruby and have bee…
Yes, it's going to excel at understanding programming languages, which have rigid structures and clearly defined commands whose inputs and outputs could never be misunderstood by a computer. And more power to ya if it saves developers a bunch of time, but it's being built and hyped as something that can do everything for everyone, which it very clearly can't. It has already pushed the customer service industry into a…
Re: Generative artificial intelligence is simply a waste of our time and money
#41I sort of disagree, you could try manning the hotline of customer service for a month or so. Ideally for a terrible company with an endless river of customers self pity and a lovely linear script that offers no good solutions 90% of the time. You end one call, the next starts immediately, max productivity the full 8 hours.