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[+] -9 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

Can sometimes help to edit your previous message with additional instructions and regenerating rather than responding to ask for a correction. Also copy pasting documentation and code examples with syntax that is real into the prompt. Might also try something other than ChatGPT since OpenAI sucks in general.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Or just you know, learn how to code and do it yourself?

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  • [–] -4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I for one would really prefer not to spend brain space on things like Excel scripting syntax. I haven't actually tried current frontier models but every LLM I've used isn't good enough to actually get good results vibe coding without applying some of your own programming knowledge, so I think you'd still want to learn regardless.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Brains are elastic and the more you put into them the better they work.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Are you a programmer? My general experience as a programmer has been that being judicious in what you spend time and energy thinking about is one of the most important things to do. The amount of languages, frameworks, and libraries all with their own syntax, documentation and quirks vastly exceeds the capacity of any one person to durably memorize, and there are compelling reasons to want to use a wide range of them on an infrequent basis and not specialize. Strategies to avoid getting lost in the weeds and find shorter paths to your actual goals were important before LLMs and they are now even more important.

    Also, personally, my memory sucks, not everyone is dealing with the same constraints and because of that there is no single right approach.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    You're right of course but they're not arguing in good faith. Wrong excel formulas in 2026? This person is either full of it, or they're trying to prompt gpt-3.5 in ancient Aramaic.

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