Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?
by Rastonbury on Sunday November 12, 2023 @08:21AM
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That makes sense, and its funny because the other reply I got a joke was about how bad coders don't even bother going to SO
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?
by aprdm on Sunday November 12, 2023 @04:36PM
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Probably because you're deep specialized in something or have stagnated on a company for a long time ? I cannot imagine knowing everything about what I am working on, that has changed dramatically every 3-4 months even within the same company
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?
by sangnoir on Sunday November 12, 2023 @08:31PM
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When you've been working for a while - not necessarily even for the same company- you gather an internal library of knowledge that you can pattern match against for solutions. You may not have seen the exact same thing, but you may have seen something like it. There are hardly ever an entirely novel class of bugs anymore
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?
by aprdm on Sunday November 12, 2023 @08:41PM
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Yeah definitely. But the tooling is very diverse in big companies. They might use every database under the sun, one day you might be doing React another one AngularJS, one day Django another day FastAPI, one day k8s, other day terraform.. at least my brain is very limited and it can be helpful
I suspect this is one of the differences between people that find GPT helpful and people that don't--it seems much more potentially helpful when you are in a less familiar environment. In my work, when I run into unexpected behavior, if I knew what question to ask then I would probably already know the answer too. Until the day I can feed in an entire codebase and ask "What's wrong with this? vaguely gestures at everything", I don't expect that to change significantly.