this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
393 points (74.5% liked)

Technology

59581 readers
4444 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A couple of my coworkers will have to write their own code again and start reading documentation

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

75% of that code must not work lol

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

It works if you ask it for small specific components, the bigger the scope of the request, the less likely it will give you anything worthwhile.

So basically you still need to know what you're doing and how to design a script/program anyway, and you're just using chatgpt to figure out the syntax.

It's a bit of time-saver at times but it's not replacing anyone in the immediate future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've tried using it myself and the responses I get, no matter how I phrase them, are too vague in most places to be useful. I have yet to get anything better than what I've found in documentation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My experience is different, the response I get is not perfect but it's good enough to be a start for any decent dev to refactor and build upon with lesser effort than from scratch. Maybe it depends on what language or framework you're asking for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have problems with it repeating certain words over and over again no matter how much I adjust the style and tone.