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by sumtechguy 1182 days ago
I usually ask it to describe the concept first. To make sure it is in the right space. Then I say something like "please write a c++ version of that".

It will do a decent job at it.

Last night a friend who refuses to get an account to use it was having an issue with a cisco router. I put in what he was trying to do. It was not right and gave him an error. I fed that error back in and it realized he had a different version and gave me a better way to do exactly what he wanted. It had kept the context and said 'oh some routers do not have that command here is another way to do it'. He had spent weeks googling around for the answer. I had it in under a half hour and I had never used the interface he was changing before.

Then you can turn around and ask it to write a horror story about a monster that devours couches. It will make something up (it is very good at that). Then you can say 'oh put that in the style of the SCP foundation'. It will.

This tool is wildly interesting. I think dismissing it is a bad idea. I look forward to using this thing as it gets better.