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Re: How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?

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Surprisingly GoLand has this build in. Just copy Json into a .go file and it'll prompt you if it should convert it to a struct.

... and there is no need for AI. You can also check out the awesome work Tom did: https://github.com/twpayne/go-jsonstruct

No a general purpose tool just invalidated all that work and more.

Re: How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?

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Working for a large international company I use ChatGPT mostly as a code generator for one time tools (for a variety of languages and shells) and also to generate boilerplate text for email answers and document templates. I'm looking at this form a technical perspective and anything that can help my creative side be a bit better is good. A 2023 way of the rubber duck method of debugging, or a 2023 method of generating "manager speak".

We have had strict instructions not to put any code/email/text into ChatGPT, just use it as a virtual person to talk to and get ideas from.

But: the moment ChatGPT v4 can run on-prem in my private cloud things will be going to be wild. One advantage of working in a large multinational is that for everything there is a procedure or a standard. I have 25 years of design documents, source code, test documents, user documents, and a ticket system with 25 years of problems & answers how each ticket was resolved. The moment I can feed that into my local ChatGPT instance the whole helpdesk/support system will dramatically change. I'm optimistic on the timeline: I think that within the next 2 to 3 years all commercial ticket tracking systems will have their own ChatGPT-like back-end.

Re: How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?

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I’m a company of one, and I use it every day, multiple times a day as a coding assistant. I’m using the excellent Code Genie (sp?) plug-in to VSC which puts a chat window directly in VSC and does cool things like allow you to highlight blocks of code and ask contextual questions / refactors / bug checks, etc. I would say my efficiency is up ~20% since starting to use it, and my Google searches & StackOverflow visits…

Just curious how the data flow works. Are you sending information to both places, CGenie and OpenAI? Full disclosure, I have never used CGenie. I know you can turn off data collection at OpenAI, can you do the same with them?

The VSC extension is just a conduit to the OpenAI API. You use your own API key. I haven’t dug into the exact data flow, however, so I can’t speak to whether the extension is collecting any or what data itself.

Re: How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?

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my comment will probably get flagged or downvoted or whatever, but yeah agreed. I literally cannot understand how people code that need gpt as an assistant for writing code. If I can reason about it, I can write it faster then the feedback loop takes for prompting.

It's for new things: new languages, frameworks, libraries. When you're not fluent, it can be a helpful hand for a beginner, or someone who has to do a lot things that they are not expert in, like a one man band in a sole enterprise or corner of a startup. It can increase efficiency for generalists. For deep work, it's less useful.

I agree. That so far the super specialist can do better. But they will also find useful when they need to cross the domain that are good at with something that they are yet a beginner. Also, for mechanical things, it is amazing. Like, for helping solving a conflict of a patch with a context, or editing lots of parts in a code with something that it would require multiple regexps.

Re: How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?

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post #72

Working for a large international company I use ChatGPT mostly as a code generator for one time tools (for a variety of languages and shells) and also to generate boilerplate text for email answers and document templates. I'm looking at this form a technical perspective and anything that can help my creative side be a bit better is good. A 2023 way of the rubber duck method of debugging, or a 2023 method of generatin…

You can run a fully offline, commercially viable, large language model from Nomic AI here locally on your machine: https://gpt4all.io/index.html

Re: How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?

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I use copilot and chatgpt to help me write terraform code, which i’m still very new to. It’s decent at showing me which IAM role policy data attachnent thingy I need to add next.

It’s not that it’s particularly amazing, more that the google hits I get when searching for my problems are littered with SO mirrors and low effort blogspam. If this was ~7 years ago I think the search results could have gotten me just as far.

Re: How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?

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I'm wearing a lot of hats at the moment since we're still in startup mode so the list is pretty varied: - I ask it to create list of questions that different personas might want to answer with our reports section. I then ask it to categorize those questions & to then provide suggestions for graphs & dynamic filters that would help answer those questions. - I ask it for help translating emails and documents for intern…

> I gut check things with Google when I feel like it might be hallucinating but generally it does really well ~ 90% of the time. Saves lots of time compared to going to Google first.

I was asking chatGPT give me boilerplate for Fabricjs Object today and it added a random object property which was nowhere to be found on official docs. At first I thought it was amazing to get a real looking code but upon testing I was confused how to take this.

Re: How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?

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I’m a company of one, and I use it every day, multiple times a day as a coding assistant. I’m using the excellent Code Genie (sp?) plug-in to VSC which puts a chat window directly in VSC and does cool things like allow you to highlight blocks of code and ask contextual questions / refactors / bug checks, etc. I would say my efficiency is up ~20% since starting to use it, and my Google searches & StackOverflow visits…

I believe this is the extension: https://github.com/ai-genie/chatgpt-vscode
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