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Another helpful tip by google (will drop 2 bonus facepalms in comments) (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Remember:

The effort needed to babysit the LLM to ensure it is producing the correct output is always equal to the effort needed to do the work yourself, and,
The computer is only ever as smart as the idiot who punched its deck in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Not really. Just going to post a comment I post whenever this topic comes up, related to how our company utilities it as software developers / engineers.

Sure they make mistakes, but even when wrong it still gives a good start. Meaning in writing less syntax.

Particularly for boring stuff.

Example: My boss is a fan of useMemo in react, not bothered about the overhead, so I just write a comment for the repetitive stuff like sorting easier to write

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And then pressing return a few times. Plus with integration in to Visual Studio Professional it will learn from your other files so if you have coding standards it’s great for that.

Is it perfect? No. Does it same time and allow us to actually solve complex problems? Yes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Yep. I use it to scaffold, rubber duck, and comment. I check it after but it does a pretty good job at that. It gives slightly better feedback than the stuffed bear on my desk and the comments are usually pretty good.

In addition, I'll write up a big ol' presentation that needs to be summarized but I'm not great at self editing. So I'll feed it through and have it give me an elevator pitch, an executive summary, and a shorter presentation. It does a passable job with very few edits for that.

It's definitely not going to replace me. It can't do my job or even anything close. But it has helped me be better at my job the same way that VS Code and PyCharm make things faster and better than just typing in Notepad.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Right. I use it every day and I'm probably 600% more productive now. What's shocking to me is the apparent difference in quality between ChatGPT and Google's AI. ChatGPT is incredibly useful. Google's AI seems dangerous and ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

"punched its deck" i love this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I don't think its ALWAYS true that the effort is equal. I think that for important things that need to have very low error rates it is going to be equal or exceed. But if you are doing creative writing and have writers block. Generative AI can help give ideas that can be helpful even if wrong because you can identify why they are wrong which might point you in the right direction.