Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?

Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by plorkyeran on Saturday March 25, 2023 @04:39PM (#35307080)

If you eliminated 100% of my code typing time with perfect effectiveness I think that'd make me maybe 10% or 20% more productive? Turning ideas of what the code should be doing into code just isn't a bottleneck for me in the first place. Are there people who just add net 1000 lines of code to whatever they're working on every single day or something?

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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by imiric on Saturday March 25, 2023 @05:18PM (#35307490)

I keep seeing this point made, but AI tools don't save you just typing time. They save you time you would previously use to lookup documentation, search the web and Stack Overflow answers. They save you time it takes to navigate and understand a codebase, write boilerplate code and tests, propose implementation suggestions, etc.

Dismissing them on the basis that they just save you typing time is not seeing their full potential.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by plorkyeran on Saturday March 25, 2023 @09:26PM (#35309645)

Navigating and understanding a codebase is the only one of those which would excite me, but it's also something I've never even someone propose using ChatGPT for. Do you have an example of what that would look like?

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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by imiric on Sunday March 26, 2023 @07:38AM (#35313374)

There have been a few announcements here just in the last week:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35236275

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35248704

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35228808

And this is with the GPT-4 limitation of 32k input tokens. Imagine what will be possible in the next generation that increases the context size.

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