[Zababa]

Google and stackoverflow have the same issue. Often I won't find the answer I'm looking for, and I'll have to use something that's close to my problem but not exactly the same. ChatGPT has the same issue, but I can tell him what work and what didn't and he'll give me an updated answer.

The alternative to that is to open 15 tabs with stackoverflow, forum threads, github issues, reddit. For the problems I usually encouter, it makes sense to ask ChatGPT first, and if I see that I'm getting nowhere after 2/3 replies I'll fall back on Google, documentation, trying something else.

[LittleShaman]

I've expressed this badly. By "but not what I wanted" I don't mean it suggesting an alternative. I mean it giving an answer claiming to do what I asked for, but which doesn't actually. I would not be able to catch this. I hope this clarifies why I gave that as an example to my uncertainty of ChatGPT giving wrong answers.

On stackoverflow and the like you will know that the question does not apply to you.

[Zababa]

If the answer doesn't do what I want, either I see it and can fix this, or I don't and then the origin of the answer doesn't really matter. That's my experience solving my problems, and I'm sure other people may have different experiences that leads them to different conclusions. But for me, for now, ChatGPT as a first step makes sense.

[ParetoOptimal]

> I mean it giving an answer claiming to do what I asked for, but which doesn't actually. I would not be able to catch this. I hope this clarifies why I gave that as an example to my uncertainty of ChatGPT giving wrong answers.

You decompose the problem further and then tell gpt it was wrong and what you know.