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by ay 1204 days ago
I noticed that ChatGPT is absolutely terrible at many “factual” questions, where the answer is a date or person or list of such.

On the other hand it seems better at more abstract questions, as well as giving interesting background around some of the “why?” ones.

The coding ones I would limit to very short tasks that are easy to eyeball and verify: on one hand, the other day in 5-6 iterations it wrote me a functional prototype of an audio player (because I was bored to try to piece together the complexity that is WebAudio api); on the other hand once I tried to ask it to write a file upload code for a Rust web server ride - and it came up with three plausibly looking but totally invented frameworks :-)

So, I won’t let it do anything in an unsupervised fashion.