“I don’t have a wife” Uno card!
Had it write some simple shader yesterday cause I have no idea how those work. It told me about how to use the mix and step functions to optimize for GPUs, then promptly added some errors I had to find myself. Actually not that bad cause now after fixing it I do understand the code. Very educational.
This is my experience using it for electrical engineering and programming. It will give me 80% of the answer, and the remainder 20% is hidden errors. Turns out the best way to learn math from GPT is to ask it a question you know the answer (but not the process) to. Then, reverse engineer the process and determine what mistakes were made and why they impact the result.
Alternatively, just refer to existing materials in the textbook and online. Then you learn it right the first time.
thank you for that last sentence because I thought I was going crazy reading through these responses.
Some people retain information easier by doing than reading.
ok, I finally figured out my view on this I believe. I was worried I was being a grumpy old man who was just yelling at the AI (still probably am, but at least I can articulate why I feel this is a negative reply to my concerns)
It’s not reproducible.
I personally don’t believe asking an AI with a prompt then “troubleshooting” it is the best educational tool for the masses to be promoted to each-other. It works for some individuals, but as you can see the results will always vary with time.
There are so many promotional and awesome educational tools that emphasize the “doing” part instead of reading. You don’t need to ask an AI prompt then try to fix all the horrible shit when there is always a statistically likely chance you will never be able to solve it and the AI gave you an impossible answer to fix.
I get some people do it, some people succeed, and some people are maybe so lonely that this interaction is actually preferable since it seems like some weird sort of collaboration. The reality is that the AI was trained unethically and has so many moral and ethical repercussions that just finding a decent educator or forum/discord to actually engage with is whole magnitudes better for society and your own mental processes.
In this context AI-gen codescript sounds like a fast track to a final exam before qualification
Shaders are black magic so understandable. However, they’re worth learning precisely because they are black magic. Makes you feel incredibly powerful once you start understanding them.
I used it yesterday because I couldn’t get mastodon’s version of http signing working. It spat out a shell script which worked, which is more than my attempts did.
mastodon’s version of http signing
I hate it so damn much
Same. They don’t even use the standard that was finalised, they are using an RFC draft that expired in 2022.
I just had Copilot hallucinate 4 separate functions, despite me giving it 2 helper files for context that contain all possible functions available to use.
AI iS tHe FuTuRE.
Even if it IS the future, it is not the present. Stop using it now.
Not the person you replied to, but my job wants us to start using it.
The idea that this will replace programmers is dumb, now or ever. But I’m okay with a tool to assist. I see it as just another iteration of the IDE.
Art and creative writing are different beasts altogether, of course.
My wife uses AI tools a lot (while I occasionally talk to Siri). But she uses it for things like: she’s working on a book and so she used it to develop book cover concepts that she then passed along to me to actually design. I feel like this is the sort of thing most of us want AI for—an assistant to help us make things, not something to make the thing for us. I still wrestle with the environmental ethics of this, though.
The environmental impacts can be solved easily by pushing for green tech. But that’s more a political problem that a technical problem IMO. Like stop subsizing oil and gas and start subsizing nuclear (in the short term) and green energy in the long term.
It’s cutting my programming work in half right now with quality .NET code. As long as I stay in the lead and have good examples + context in my codebase, it saves me a lot of time.
This was not the case for co-pilot though, but Cursor AI combined with Claude 3.7 is quite advanced.
If people are not seeing any benefit, I think they have the wrong use cases, workflow or tools. Which can be fair limitations depending on your workplace of course.
You could get in a nasty rabbit hole if you vibe-code too much though. Stay the architect and check generated code / files after creation.
I use it extremely sparingly. I’m critical of anything it gives me. I find I waste more time fixing its work and removing superfluous code more than I do gaining value from it.
Our tiny company of software engineers have embraced it in the IDE for what it is, a tool.
As a tool we have saved a crazy amount of man hours and as I don’t work for ghouls we recently got pay increases and a reduction in hours.
There are only 7 of us including the two owner / engineers and it’s been a game changer.
The Copilot code completion in VSCode works surprisingly well. Asking Copilot in the web chat about anything usually makes me want to rip my hair out. I have no idea how these two could possibly be based on the same model
It quite depends on your use case, doesn’t it? This decades-old phrase about an algorithm in Fractint always stuck with me: “[It] can guess wrong, but it sure guesses quickly!”
Part of my job is getting an overview - just some generic leads and hints - about topics completely unknown to me, really fast. So I just ask an LLM, verify the links it gives and create a response within like 10-15 minutes. So far, no complaints.Yeah I find the code completion is pretty consistent and learns from other work I’m doing. Chat and asking it to do anything though is a hallucinogenic nightmare.
I don’t need Chat GPT to fuck my wife but if I had one and her and Chat GPT were into it then I would like to watch Chat GPT fuck my wife.
good on you!
Thanks. So I have Chat GPT, now all I need is a wife… Maybe I should ask Chat GPT for one.
Well, that escalated quickly.
Joke on you, my wife and I are into it!
It’s such a weird question. Why would I need ChatGPT to fuck my wife when we have the Dildoninator 9000 with Vac-u-loc attachments and King fu grip?
Oh poor baby, do you need the dishwasher to wash your dishes? Do you need the washing mashine to wash your clothes? You can’t do it?
how about fucking your wife?
What I wrote was fucking my wife.
To me the worse thing is, my collage uses ai to make the tests, I can see it’s made by it because of multiple correct options, and in a group the teacher said something like “why lost 1h to make when ai can make it in seconds”
I like to use ai to “convert” citations, like APA to ABNT, I’m lazy for it and it’s just moving the position of the words so yeah
Robot, experience this dramatic irony for me!
If only I’d programmed the robot to be more careful what I wished for!
ChatGPT is learning from my fucking. All males will be amazing at oral sex and learning to last “almost too long”.
Too bad everyone will be fucking robots by then
Do you need a car to go 55 mph? AI is a tool. The problem is the ownership of these tools.
The ownership, energy cost, reliability of responses and the ethics of scraping and selling other people’s work, but yeah.
All things that could have been/could be fixed, but let’s dunk on end users with memes instead.
I can see how this is going to be a real cuckold kink in a few years
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Hello! It’s me, ChatGpt! I heard you needed me for a small chore?
ITT
I used Ai recently and it got some details wrong so it is entirely useless for anyone, anywhere under any circumstances, even though it’s less than six years old as a technology!
crosses arms
You guys are like newspaper men in the 1940s raging about TV being an experimental failure.
