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[–] 64 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Googling does become a hell of a lot easier if you know what the concept you're looking for is called.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    I find myself going to ChatGPT for this stuff now.

    "I'm trying to do something like [concept]. What is that called and can you give me an example"

    Usually I get my results faster and easier than Google.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    be careful using it as your only source of truth, even more so when you don't know what you're searching for exactly

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    If it spits out the wrong syntax my compiler will tell me immediately.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    While I never had it happen, it could give you wrong command line switches that do damage. For example, when I asked how I could list volumes attached to an AWS instance, it gave me a "modify-volume" command instead of "describe-volume" command. Thankfully, I caught that before I cut and paste it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    It's bad enough at programming that you can often see the problems without the help of the compiler

    Last thing I asked it for, after the fourth draft still had undeclared variables and called imaginary libraries (which if they existed would be great)

    It was good for coming up with a nice structure for a small program

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    You can ask it for source now with browser integration. Previously the browser extension was a separate model with gpt3.5 which was pretty bad, now it's just integrated into gp4. It works a million times better and it's great that it doesn't break the flow of the conversation.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I had an emailed a question that I didn't really know where to go with, so I asked Copilot to answer the email factually. Sent that email with a note of ai origin, but it was close enough and got us into right track

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