OpenAI is shockingly good at unminifying code

Re:OpenAI is shockingly good at unminifying code by cdelsolar on Thursday August 29, 2024 @10:42AM (#41391306)

ChatGPT is phenomenal for trying new techniques/libraries/etc. It's very good at many things. In the past few weeks I've used it to build me a complex 3D model with lighting/etc with Three.JS, rewrote the whole thing into React Three Fiber (also with ChatGPT), for a side project. I've never used Three.JS before and my only knowledge of computer graphics is from a class I took 20 years ago. For work I've used it to write me a CFN template from scratch and help me edit it. I've also used it to try a technique with AST - I've never used ASTs before and the first thing ChatGPT generated was flawless. Actually, most of the stuff I have it generate is flawless or nearly flawless.

It's nothing short of incredible. Each of those tasks would normally have taken me hours and I have working code in actual seconds.

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Re:OpenAI is shockingly good at unminifying code by kamaal on Thursday August 29, 2024 @11:22AM (#41391746)

And we are still at the beginning of this. Some what like where Google search was in early 2000s.

As IDE integration grows and there are more and better models, that can do this better than ever. We will unlock all sort of productivity benefits.

There is still skepticism about making these work at scale, with regards to both electricity and compute requirement for the larger audience. But if they can get this to work, we might see a new era tech boom way bigger than we have seen anything before.

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Re:OpenAI is shockingly good at unminifying code by pton_xd on Thursday August 29, 2024 @11:56AM (#41392153)

I see your point but that specific analogy makes me wince. Google search was way better in the 2000s. It has become consistently dumber since then. Usefulness doesn't necessarily increase in a straight line over time.

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