Re:Pairing with GPT-4 · Fly
by jhonof on Friday March 31, 2023 @11:25AM
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> It's probably the same thing as with writing text. If you find starting from a blank page is anxiety-producing, a page of generated text may be useful even if you end up rewriting a lot of it.
This is a pretty cogent insight, I much prefer having a draft of, for example, an email and then completely rewriting it, rather than starting an email from scratch. I'm not sure why, but it makes it seem much more approachable to me. That being said, I have found GPT-4 code not useful for anything but boilerplates or small functions. It often gets large blocks of code so wrong that it is just much faster to write it from scratch.
What I have found useful so far is asking for a commented outline of what I'm asking for with just variable names filled in, but no implementation. It often gets that correct, and then I do the implementation correct.
This is a pretty cogent insight, I much prefer having a draft of, for example, an email and then completely rewriting it, rather than starting an email from scratch. I'm not sure why, but it makes it seem much more approachable to me. That being said, I have found GPT-4 code not useful for anything but boilerplates or small functions. It often gets large blocks of code so wrong that it is just much faster to write it from scratch.
What I have found useful so far is asking for a commented outline of what I'm asking for with just variable names filled in, but no implementation. It often gets that correct, and then I do the implementation correct.