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by roncesvalles 1242 days ago
I find it hard to believe that ChatGPT is useful beyond trivial things or giving you a lead that you can follow on Google. It's very frequently just plain wrong.
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If you invest time in improving your skill at prompt engineering you’ll find it quite worthwhile.

And yes, often I do follow up google searches for some things - but it has already saved me days of research time compared to Google

i'm wrong about most things most of the time. i'm pretty sure i'm still useful.
Well even wrong answers have utility in a forum. When someone posts a wrong answer on Stack Overflow, Reddit or in real life(?), it baits a bunch of replies describing in detail just how wrong that answer is.

ChatGPT has the user interface of an oracle sitting alone in a cave in the mountains, but it isn't as accurate as an oracle is expected to be. That makes it useless to me.