Re:Is ChatGPT Good at Search?
by johnisgood on Thursday December 19, 2024 @08:06AM
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I use it for things that I know the answer to, but takes much longer to implement by hand. It works relatively well for that. If it does not know, I can nudge it in the right direction, and is still faster than doing it by hand. I built many projects with it. I could have built them by hand, and indeed I started, but have not completed. I finally managed to finish projects I have not finished prior to this because there was just so much to do and so little time.
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I use it for cheap one off stuff
Re:Is ChatGPT Good at Search?
by ziggyzecat on Thursday December 19, 2024 @11:56AM
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I stopped using LLMs entirely. Proper googling, which isn't broken, btw, doesn't cost that much more time, I realised and it let's me have more secondary and ternary related factual info that I didn't ask for, because how would I even know yet?
So spending just a little more time on the (re)search via standard methods provides me with more extensive, fact-checked, reviewed and discussed information than any of the LLMs that I used did.
Re:Is ChatGPT Good at Search?
by johnisgood on Thursday December 19, 2024 @11:51AM
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Hmm, such as? What would you consider one off stuff?
Using aider to make a simple Python script to fetch that csv and graph it on matplotlib was an acceptable experience. The worst part is how Claude refused to use seaborn.
I used it to write a little bit of bash glue for a build system too. I’m no bash expert, but the script was only 20 lines, so I went through each and it was correct and I learned a bit of the % syntax.
Not really something I like spending $20 a month for, so nowadays if i feel like using ai I just use llama.