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Re:Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today? by esalman on Friday March 01, 2024 @01:35AM (#39559168)
Blows my mind that people consider using ChatGPT for serious applications. I mean it's fine as a code autocorrect/autocomplete tool as in GitHub copilot. But it should not replace the code itself. You encounter a bug in the code, you fix it, you never encounter it again. But ChatGPT will repeat the same mistake sooner or later. That's not how we should engineer solution for critical problems.
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Re:Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today? by makoto12 on Friday March 01, 2024 @03:42AM (#39559881)
If you sandbox your connection to openAI correctly, then you can get the benefit of a llm without making your application look silly at the same time. Identifying the correct places in your business to use it is tricky, but imo it certainly makes sense in a lot of specific areas. Just not a catch all that can run your business for you
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Re:Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today? by lucumo on Friday March 01, 2024 @01:57AM (#39559287)
If the cost-savings is worth it compared to the problems...

I mean, that's how we do it with humans. It's quite a common occurrence to keep a part of a business process human because automating it would we too expense due to edge cases.

Humans make mistakes and are expensive, but are also flexible and usually smartish. ChatGPT makes mistakes and is usually dumbish, but is also flexible and cheap.

Engineering is about picking the right trade-offs in your solution.

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Re:Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today? by fuzztester on Friday March 01, 2024 @02:26AM (#39559451)
>I mean, that's how we do it with humans. It's quite a common occurrence to keep a part of a business process human because automating it would we too expense due to edge cases.

Which part of the human do people keep? The head? Arms? ;)

#ParsingAmbiguityError

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Re:Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today? by fractalb on Friday March 01, 2024 @02:04AM (#39559330)
> ChatGPT makes mistakes and is usually dumbish, but is also flexible and cheap.

People wouldn't mind it if the keyword `dumbish` has been all along there.

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Re:Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today? by Draiken on Friday March 01, 2024 @05:45AM (#39560541)
As long as you add the "AI" keyword to the product/app/company and sell to people that don't understand how unreliable it is, you're good.

Let me rephrase that: you can profit from it. Even if it's not good.

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Re:Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today? by ativzzz on Friday March 01, 2024 @10:23AM (#39562604)
It's great for prototyping and creating outlines/rough drafts or for creating rough summaries - you can build this into some features to help your customers speed up writing lots of text
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