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Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by SeanAnderson on Thursday October 03, 2024 @01:56PM (#41733080)
I'm playing around with this right now and it's pretty sweet. It real-time shows which lines it's "thinking" about working and feels very dynamic, like I'm working with a machine in real-time.

It can't display markdown and formatted code side-by-side which is kind of a surprise.

I haven't tried doing anything super complex with it yet. Just having it generate some poems, but it's smart enough to be able to use natural language to edit the middle of a paragraph of text without rewriting the whole thing, didn't notice any issues with me saying "undo" and having data change in surprising ways, etc. So far so good!

I'm not very skilled at creating good "test" scenarios for this, but I found this to be fun/interesting: https://i.imgur.com/TMhNEcf.png

I had it write some Python code to output a random poem. I then had it write some code to find/replace a word in the poem (sky -> goodbye). I then manually edited each of the input poems to include the word "sky".

I then told it to execute the python code (which causes it to run "Analyzing...") and to show the output on the screen. In doing so, I see output which includes the word replacement of sky->goodbye.

My naive interpretation of this is that I could use this as a makeshift Python IDE at this point?

Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by WD-42 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:33PM (#41733495)
I’m kinda giggling imaging the amount of electricity you used to write “sky..”.replace(“sky”, “goodbye”)
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by unshavedyak on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:39PM (#41733558)
Is it possible to have the local context be a directory and all files within it or something? Ie to just ask it questions on the side of your WIP repo? Use your normal editor/etc.
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by SeanAnderson on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:57PM (#41733756)
Doesn't look like this is yet possible, no
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by coalteddy on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:15PM (#41733300)
How do I get access to this feature? I cannot find it in the normal chatgpt interface.
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by SeanAnderson on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:20PM (#41733360)
It's a staged rollout. You'll probably have it by tomorrow morning.
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by aaronharnly on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:47PM (#41733649)
I believe you wait until your number comes up :/
Re:Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT by whimsicalism on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:22PM (#41733380)
it's under the model list on the web interface