Re:When ChatGPT summarises, it does nothing of the kind
by ben_w on Sunday July 21, 2024 @05:46PM
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Mm.
As it happens, I've just been using it this weekend to write code for me. Two things:
(1) it's not business critical code, it's a side project that I want to get done but otherwise wouldn't have energy for. Especially not in this heatwave in a century old building that has no air-con.
(2) my experiments are a weird mix of ChatGPT wildly messing things up and it managing to get basically everything done to an acceptable result (not quality of code, quality of output). Sometimes I have the same experience as you, that it's just aggravating in its non-comprehension, sometimes it's magical.
I don't know if it can be magical more often if I was "better at prompting". But I do know that I also get aggravated (less often) by other humans not understanding me, and those are much harder to roll back to a previous point in the conversation, edit the prompt, and have them try again :P
As for code quality… well, sure. Stuff I'm asking ChatGPT for is python and JavaScript, and I'm an iOS dev. I can't tell when it's doing something non-idiomatic, or using an obsolete library or archaic pattern in those languages.
As it happens, I've just been using it this weekend to write code for me. Two things:
(1) it's not business critical code, it's a side project that I want to get done but otherwise wouldn't have energy for. Especially not in this heatwave in a century old building that has no air-con.
(2) my experiments are a weird mix of ChatGPT wildly messing things up and it managing to get basically everything done to an acceptable result (not quality of code, quality of output). Sometimes I have the same experience as you, that it's just aggravating in its non-comprehension, sometimes it's magical.
I don't know if it can be magical more often if I was "better at prompting". But I do know that I also get aggravated (less often) by other humans not understanding me, and those are much harder to roll back to a previous point in the conversation, edit the prompt, and have them try again :P
As for code quality… well, sure. Stuff I'm asking ChatGPT for is python and JavaScript, and I'm an iOS dev. I can't tell when it's doing something non-idiomatic, or using an obsolete library or archaic pattern in those languages.