Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code
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Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code
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Re: Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code
#2Have been thinking about exactly this workflow and of course Simon is way out ahead. I recommend taking a look at Simon's daily notes logs too, really fascinating back and forths.
Re: Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code
#3Have been thinking about exactly this workflow and of course Simon is way out ahead. I recommend taking a look at Simon's daily notes logs too, really fascinating back and forths.
Here are my issue notes so far: https://github.com/simonw/advent-of-code-2022-in-rust/issues...
Re: Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code
#4In a way of seeing it, ChatGPT can be a great teacher because it can both provide subject knowledge and force you to be very critical about content you consume.
Re: Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code
#5The way it explains code, the error, and then gives the solution to this particular error, i really don’t understand how someone could pretend we’re not witnessing at least a first hint of true intelligence.
Re: Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code
#6The way it explains code, the error, and then gives the solution to this particular error, i really don’t understand how someone could pretend we’re not witnessing at least a first hint of true intelligence.
because you don't understand intelligence
Re: Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code
#7The way it explains code, the error, and then gives the solution to this particular error, i really don’t understand how someone could pretend we’re not witnessing at least a first hint of true intelligence.
I still think it's the world's most impressive party trick.
It turns out if you build a model that can predict what word comes next after a sequence of previous words, then train it on TBs (PBs?) of data, you get something that really does appear to be "intelligent". And which is absurdly useful, to boot!
Until you trip it up, and the illusion shatters.
Re: Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code
#8In a way of seeing it, ChatGPT can be a great teacher because it can both provide subject knowledge and force you to be very critical about content you consume.
Today I built the SSO flow for an application at work, and I learned a lot significantly faster than I could by just searching because it was guided. The generated code had issues, but it felt a lot like rustlings [1]. At many points I felt that my solution and approach was akin to doing gradient descent, with ChatGPT giving me the direction and me doing backtracking to avoid overshooting (glossing what it missed).
Re: Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code
#9The way it explains code, the error, and then gives the solution to this particular error, i really don’t understand how someone could pretend we’re not witnessing at least a first hint of true intelligence.
I still think it's the world's most impressive party trick. It turns out if you build a model that can predict what word comes next after a sequence of previous words, then train it on TBs (PBs?) of data, you get something that really does appear to be "intelligent". And which is absurdly useful, to boot! Until you trip it up, and the illusion shatters.
It's more than that though, it also involves ranking the results to account for noise in the sampling process.
Re: Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code
#10The way it explains code, the error, and then gives the solution to this particular error, i really don’t understand how someone could pretend we’re not witnessing at least a first hint of true intelligence.
We haven't figured out what conscience is, so it's going to be fun to deal with near perfect imitations of human behaviour, and the societal consequences...