> ChatGPT is, in technical terms, a 'bullshit generator'.
This bs generator speeded up my coding by 10-20x. It's like a superpower... not talking about ChatGPT specifically but its stochastic parrot cousin (Copilot).
This bs generator speeded up my coding by 10-20x. It's like a superpower... not talking about ChatGPT specifically but its stochastic parrot cousin (Copilot).
I could leave my webcam on, it'll maybe regularly notify me its on, and hopefully block taking pictures, instead it'll basically just watch my eye movements and know which screen to focus on, and take voice prompts to find the window and subwindow i.e. chrome+hackernews tab, or vscode+filename. It'd basically be like vim but for outside the terminal and without memorizing shortcuts and it'd have a listening mode so I can just ask it questions whenever and it'll maybe even interface with copilot and give extra 'context' to things.
This is what i want, basically a mini-version of "HER" to give me more super powers until it takes my job, lol.
Its writing style is also pretty tedious for many prompts.
I've noticed "full stack" folks really enjoying ChatGPT but dedicated infra and ML folks (not working on toy problems) finding it less valuable.
A good chunk of my work involves talking to folks, understanding requirements, putting together design docs, etc. vs. actual coding. I've found it not particularly valuable even for doc writing.
One example is when working on a front end form in Vue or React: if I have a bunch of variables in the component state and create a form tag, Copilot is great at creating all of the inputs with the correct bindings and input component types, so I'll usually prompt it after creating the first one by hand as an example.
Since I'm selectively prompting it instead of just letting it suggest left and right, I also find it helpful to sometimes write out a quick comment explaining what it is that I want in more detail than the function name can provide, then prompt it on the next line after the comment. That often helps to get better results, though I'm still careful to read through everything.
I find it very hard to believe you can build software 10-20x faster with GPT, since the majority of building software isn't writing code.
I'm also curious what you're programming that can be completely offloaded to GPT.
It's not integrated into an IDE like GH co-pilot yet is it?
I only find I reach for it for stuff like navigating some curly regex or forgetting date time format syntax for the millionth time. But I would be very keen to understand if I'm missing out.