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Don't worry, we'll eventually get down to only requiring 1 employee to run a successful business.
When it comes to IT work, that's how it should be - as long as we're talking about self employed.
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But for anyone in IT or related fields? $20/month feels like a nobrainer if you're in the West. It's like paying for Jetbrains IDEs. I'm a bumbling idiot writing Symfony and Wordpress code and PHPStorm is 150 Euros a year. It probably increases my productivity by that much per day . If ChatGPT saves you more than 60 seconds a day, or makes you work more comfortable, it's easily worth $20.
> $20/month feels like a nobrainer if you're in the West. I earn 2000€ per month as a C# dev in France, (assuming $1 == 1€) I just need a hundred subscriptions like that to have no money left at the end of the month. While I'll admit a 100 subs is a bit much, it's very easy to have 10 or 15. > If ChatGPT saves you more than 60 seconds a day Even if it saved me 4 hours a day I wouldn't be paid more.
If you really don't like using your brain to write, then why not spend a bit of money to offload some thinking to this service?
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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 the monitor example is different from the ChatGPT example. A monitor is relatively cheap, I would own it, and it will primarily improve my life and secondarily improve my productivity. In contrast, with ChatGPT, if I'm working on a difficult programming job, I spend X time thinking deeply and Y time actually typing the solution. A system that can type for me is convenient but it may not speed things since I c…
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Negotiating an increased salary for the use of your capitalized equipment is a terrible use of resources. The fact that they agreed to that tells me that they detected it was a touchy subject for you and went the appeasement rout. If they cared about the equipment they would have preferred to purchase/finance it or lease it.
>The fact that they agreed to that tells me that they detected it was a touchy subject for you and went the appeasement rout. It wasn't touchy, it was reasonable. I guarantee you not one engineer at our company uses their personal computer. It's no different than saying "I want a work computer." They were going to buy me film equipment but hadn't determined exactly what we needed yet and hadn't set aside enough resou…
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You're pretty close. Eventually grandpa will be in the box. Our life's biodata will stream into the cloud as it happens through ancillary means (phones, watches, biometric sensors in retail stores), and the moment we die, our animatronic proxy will be ordered and arrive after an appropriate grieving period. You don't really have to live forever if your robot understudy can continue your legacy. Imagine the recurring…
There was a Black Mirror episode on something like that.
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Its job is to generate a convincing response. It doesn't "lie" and it doesn't "tell truth" either. It just does what it's asked to. It may use memorized facts if that makes it easier to generate a convincing response, but it's completely optional.
> Its job is to generate a convincing response. It doesn't "lie" Generating a convincing response and telling lies, or not, are not related. It actually lies to me about itself, on more than one occasion. Try this: Are you a computer? No, I am not a computer. What are you then? I am a human.
My point exactly. GPT does the former and doesn't concern itself with the latter.
"Lie" implies an intent. There is no lie there, these are perfectly fine answers to your questions. They're just unrelated to the model, as it has no real concept of "I". You can imagine someone answering these questions that way, and that's all that matters - the model did its job well.
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(I work at OpenAI.) Thanks for the report — these are not actually messages from other users, but instead the model generating something ~random due to hitting a bug on our backend where, rather than submitting your question, we submitted an empty query to the model. That's why you see just the answers and no question upon refresh — the question has been effectively dropped for this request. Team is fixing the issue…
Quick question. Will ChatGPT be fine-tune able from the API ? PS: You should really do an AMA!
I'd specially like to know why it was "generating something ~random" instead of "generating something random" when given an empty question.
If it's random, how does it come up with the topic, and if it is "~random", how is it not other (random) user's data? The former case being the interesting one, since the second one would appear to be more of a caching or session management bug.
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But for anyone in IT or related fields? $20/month feels like a nobrainer if you're in the West. It's like paying for Jetbrains IDEs. I'm a bumbling idiot writing Symfony and Wordpress code and PHPStorm is 150 Euros a year. It probably increases my productivity by that much per day . If ChatGPT saves you more than 60 seconds a day, or makes you work more comfortable, it's easily worth $20.
Everything is relative. I'm in IT - in fact in a decently high paying and relevant part of it, being a devops specialist - in the West (in Italy) and I make ~1700 euros a month, and this is with 10 years of experience in the sector. I'm not getting ripped off, this is by far the highest salary I've had and I make about as much as my parents do after working for 45 years. I still cannot afford, after house, car and li…
You're absolutely getting ripped off if this a real devops specialist role (some companies use that word for manual server admins) and your employment history is not an indicator of anything. Only the market is and where are you in the salary range for a given role.
I'm an average dev from Poland (basically 1/4 GDP of Italy), working for a Polish, not international company (clients are international), having less than 10 years of documented commercial experience and I'm making about 5k EUR after taxes (converted from PLN) and I'm not even close to the cap.
At my first company I made about 500 EUR a month, and whilst the second paid me twice as much, it was still absolutely ripping me off.
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But for anyone in IT or related fields? $20/month feels like a nobrainer if you're in the West. It's like paying for Jetbrains IDEs. I'm a bumbling idiot writing Symfony and Wordpress code and PHPStorm is 150 Euros a year. It probably increases my productivity by that much per day . If ChatGPT saves you more than 60 seconds a day, or makes you work more comfortable, it's easily worth $20.
> But for anyone in IT or related fields? $20/month feels like a nobrainer if you're in the West. Yes, I definitely hear you. If you're living well within your means then sure. But on the other hand, a shocking number of Americans don't live within their means and are strapped with credit card debt. In those situations even a small number of instances of this kind of "oh, it's just $20 / month" reasoning start to add…
You're probably right that it's a medium-term game for employees (if their employer isn't ready to pay the $20, which I assume they would be), but you will certainly be more productive and get things done quicker than others (and probably measurably so), which should give you a good spot for a promotion or negotiations. But of course, that only really works if you derive value from ChatGPT. If it's more of a "my work is easier but not faster or better", then it won't make sense.
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For me, chatGPT is simply a good replacement for {stackexchange, reddit, wikipedia, github, google,bing, etc.}. All information is accessible in one place and it's easy to ask about anything and get a structured answer. My topics of interest are advanced math, philosophy of physics, and modern semiconductors technology.
GPT is amazing as a stackexchange, et. el. replacement. Just earlier today I used GPT to answer a really simple question which I Google failed to answer. I just wanted to programmatically change a setting in a Kubernetes deployment, but I really didn't want to take the time to figure out the insane JSON nesting. This is so worth a subscription fee. Please write a kubectl command to correctly patch the imagePullPolicy…