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Re:Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes ... by nani8ot on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @03:52PM (#38931940)
In my experience ChatGPT learns from those 11 out of date blog posts, and merges it all into a totally wrong mess. At least I didn't have much luck with solving nix problems with chatgpt.
Re:Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes ... by __MatrixMan__ on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @10:42PM (#38935853)
I'd say that chatgpt can solve half of the nix problems that I bother confront it with. Half of them it solves it on the first go, for the remainder I have to go back and forth with it for 4x longer than it would have taken me to solve it on my own.

Typically these are troubleshooting a flake for a project. I think it works because flakes are nice and self contained: you can paste the whole flake. I find it does significantly worse when trying to help with contributions to nixpkgs, presumably because the context is not bite sized.