• hswolf@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    be careful using it as your only source of truth, even more so when you don’t know what you’re searching for exactly

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      1 year ago

      If it spits out the wrong syntax my compiler will tell me immediately.

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        1 year ago

        While I never had it happen, it could give you wrong command line switches that do damage. For example, when I asked how I could list volumes attached to an AWS instance, it gave me a “modify-volume” command instead of “describe-volume” command. Thankfully, I caught that before I cut and paste it.

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        1 year ago

        It’s bad enough at programming that you can often see the problems without the help of the compiler

        Last thing I asked it for, after the fourth draft still had undeclared variables and called imaginary libraries (which if they existed would be great)

        It was good for coming up with a nice structure for a small program

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      1 year ago

      You can ask it for source now with browser integration. Previously the browser extension was a separate model with gpt3.5 which was pretty bad, now it’s just integrated into gp4. It works a million times better and it’s great that it doesn’t break the flow of the conversation.