Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

Post by kridsdale3 » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 5:39 PM UTC

ren_engineer wrote: post #70

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

Post by kridsdale3 » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 5:43 PM UTC

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LLMs are a more flexible platform than browsers. They can be prompted, finetuned or run locally. Even if a company wants to make their base model spit ads, it won't fly.

Depends how subtle they are about it, and what the rest of the ecosystem looks like. Perhaps the ad/ad-blocker analogy would be: You can have the free genuinely open source LLM trained only on Wikipedia and out-of-copyright materials, or you can have one trained on current NYT articles and Elsevier publications that also subtly pushes you towards specific brand names or political parties that paid to sponsor the mode…

Post by kridsdale3 » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 5:51 PM UTC

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Not sure how or why you’d want this integrated into Vim for instance.

idk, I can definitely see value in a lightweight LLM component for VIM to help me look up the correct command sequence to exit :P

Post by vessenes » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 7:20 PM UTC

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Just incant tar cvf and leave off the z or j: there’s a tiny binary header but Claude won’t mind. Check out the aider GitHub repository for details but 4o is responsive to text requests too.

ya for extra clarification - a tarball or .tar file is an uncompressed container for files. It can also be compressed (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, etc) ultimately though the end user is not really concerned with this. the tarball needs to be un-tar'd regardless of whether it is compressed. (some nuance here as certain compression formats might not be supported by the host... but gzip and bzip2 are common) I haven't tested a c…

Post by GMoromisato » Fri, Oct 04, 2024, 7:41 PM UTC

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> Basically it looks like a tool that can code for you if you are capable of writing the code yourself (given enough time). Yes, exactly. I use it the way I used to outsource tasks to junior developers. I describe what I need done and then I do code review. I know roughly where I want to go and how to get there, like having a sink full of dirty dishes and visualizing an empty sink with all the dishes cleaned and put…

This just raised a big red flag for me: > I use it the way I used to outsource tasks to junior developers. Is this not concerning to you, in a broader sense? These interactions were incredibly formative for junior devs (they were for me years ago) - its how to grew new senior devs. If we automate away the opportunity to train new senior devs, what happens to the future?