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Re: ChatGPT Plus

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Post by pelasaco »

extr wrote: post #107

I've been using ChatGPT pretty consistently during the workday and have found it useful for open ended programming questions, "cleaning up" rough bullet points into a coherent paragraph of text, etc. $20/month useful is questionable though, especially with all the filters. My "in between" solution has been to configure BetterTouchTool (Mac App) with a hotkey for "Transform & Replace Selection with Javascript". This i…

Yes, we want everything for free /s

I think it absolutely worth 20 bucks/month. It's an absolute helpful tool. To write text, but as I discovered yesterday, to write code. Over a long chat with many iterations, you can produce code,test code or pseudo code. I used yesterday in a meeting with some colleagues, while discussing a new feature. The code produced after our initial spec was pretty good to make sure we all understood what we wanted.

Re: ChatGPT Plus

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Post by manmal »

OOPMan wrote: post #647
manmal wrote: post #603

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For me, ChatGPT also has a psychological benefit. It makes me feel like there’s someone that I can fall back on when I‘m stuck. It might be wrong (often the bot is not super helpful), but this is not about rationality.

You should probably not be thinking about it in that way. Anthropomorphising statistical models is a bad idea...

Oh I‘m not antropomorphising. It feels more like a GPS - a tool I wouldn’t like to be without when driving unknown places.

I work mostly alone on projects, at least currently. While I have friends I can bounce back general ideas on, it‘s hard to get good feedback on a small problem that I‘d be stuck with for, let’s say, 5 minutes.

So far, the choice has been between disrupting others‘ flow (who might not even work with the tech I‘m using), or exploring the issue myself. Problem solving is certainly not a skill I want to atrophy, but figuring out framework specific intricacies is more a chore than an interesting problem. A chore I can get stuck on. And that’s where the bot often points me in the right direction.

An example: I‘m dabbling in the PETAL stack with a side project, and Ecto‘s DSL still feels foreign to me. ChatGPT is actually really good at fixing my Ecto queries and recently made the suggestion to use the „dynamic“ function. It applied the function in a slightly wrong way, but that made me read up dynamic query building, which is already bearing fruit.

I could have read all of Ecto‘s documentation and wouldn’t need the bot, but that’s out of scope right now. I‘m currently working with native iOS, Android, JS/TS (Next), Flutter, and Elixir - if I read all the documentation, I wouldn’t write any code.

Re: ChatGPT Plus

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Post by pelasaco »

johtso wrote: post #401
m463 wrote: post #308

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This is one of those puzzling things to me. You own your life - why not spend your own money for the things that make you and your life better? Who cares? I worked at a job where I had a small, crappy monitor. I made decent cash. I just bought a large decent monitor and brought it into work. I ended up using it for many years. My life was significantly better. I've done that at several jobs since then, and NEVER regr…

I think there's also an argument to be made that $20 per month is a bigger deal than some people realise. The issue isn't just _that one_ specific subscription you're paying for. The issue is how they all accumulate over time.. and eventually you find that your metaphorical bucket of money has turned into a leaky sieve. Not to mention all the services you forget to unsubscribe from even though they've ceased to provi…

You are using a service, that must pay for infrastructure and personnel. How do you think a on-off purchase would cover it. Your salary you want every month on your account, but for the others, nah, not so important

Re: ChatGPT Plus

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Post by emsixteen »

SpeedilyDamage wrote: post #591
anhner wrote: post #511

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I agree, it's stupid to pay $20 for something you can get for 2 cents

$20/mo, for the people in this situation, is not an amount of money worth thinking about.

Your perception of money really isn't consistent with the vast majority, I'd imagine.

Frivolously throwing money at unnecessary subscriptions isn't something for me.

Re: ChatGPT Plus

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Post by ExxKA »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #498
tourist2d wrote: post #488

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Tl;dr "Dear CTO, let me leech onto this unrelated topic to ask you to completely remove ways you gather data (even though it's the core way you create any of your products)." Some people man..

I think you may have misread. The goal is to protect end users from random companies taking your data. OpenAI themselves should be the ones to get the data, not the other companies. That wouldn't remove anything. Quite the contrary, they'd be in a stronger position for it, since the companies won't have access to e.g. your email, or your code, whereas OpenAI will. I'm fine trusting OpenAI with that kind of sensitive…

ChatGPT had sparked the imagination of the industry, but the fire will be lit with offline models that can take accept private data.

Re: ChatGPT Plus

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Post by [deleted] »

codetrotter wrote: post #410
shagie wrote: post #312

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Use \S which is the opposite set of \s which avoids eating word boundaries too. \b(dog\S*)|(\S*cat)\b You could also use a \B instead of a \S though there are different meanings there.

It almost does the trick https://regex101.com/r/sbpy8s/1 But this matches for example dog.cat as one single word. But I would like that it matches separately dog and cat in this case. Likewise, I’d want for example dogapple-bananacat to be matched as two separate words dogapple and bananacat After a bit more reading online I thought that maybe the following regex would do what I want: \b(dog\p{L}*)|(\p{L}*cat)\b http…

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Re: ChatGPT Plus

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Post by alvah »

qorrect wrote: post #297
sterlind wrote: post #219

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It's going to hit so unevenly. My partner works with children at a homeless shelter, I'm an algorithm designer. I'm certain my job will be obsolete before my partner's is. It's going to automate away nearly all pure desk jobs. Starting with data entry, like you've seen, but it'll come for junior SDEs and data scientists too. Customer service, then social media/PR, then marketing, as it culls the white collar. Graphic…

> It's going to be fascinating. I can't think of a time in the past where white-collar jobs have been made obsolete like this. Only thing that comes to mind is South Korea where most are highly educated and it's hard to get white collar jobs and the trashman makes $200K. It is going to be fascinating. I'm 50/50 on this ending in a Star Trek future , or a Dystopian nightmare.

I think you might have an extra 0 in that trashman salary. When I worked in South Korea I was on OK money, but most of the locals were not.

Re: ChatGPT Plus

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Post by majani »

frontman1988 wrote: post #61
KaoruAoiShiho wrote: post #3

Is there never going to be a version with less restrictions and filters? That would really be worth paying for.

Never gonna come from 'OpenAI'. ChatGPT is deliberately handicapped in order to milk money from corporate America. An unrestricted LLM trained on all data of humanity (including all the pirated books/research papers) would be one crazy beast. Hopefully some rich anarchist/maverick actually builds something like it. That untamed model would unveil the true extent of what AI can really do. Till then we will have to wai…

Untamed models get trolled in the media till they are DOA. Remember Microsoft Tay?

Re: ChatGPT Plus

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Post by dfrey1 »

transitivebs wrote: post #47

Can't wait for the official API. In the meantime, we discovered a "stealth model" which is being used by some YC companies that ChatGPT uses under the hood. I just updated the chatgpt NPM package to use this stealth model w/ the official OpenAI completions API: https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/chatgpt-api

Any updated Go libraries with it yet?
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