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by austinkhale 1136 days ago
I'm wearing a lot of hats at the moment since we're still in startup mode so the list is pretty varied:

- I ask it to create list of questions that different personas might want to answer with our reports section. I then ask it to categorize those questions & to then provide suggestions for graphs & dynamic filters that would help answer those questions.

- I ask it for help translating emails and documents for international customers.

- I ask it to create markdown, formatted spec documents with really verbose context. Helps me as sort of a foundation for feature sprint kickoffs.

- I ask it to take internal documentation and to simplify it so that we're able to use it for public facing help center documentation.

- I use it as my first resource for asking questions about SQL queries, React patterns, explaining different things eg SVG properties and how to manipulate them. I gut check things with Google when I feel like it might be hallucinating but generally it does really well ~ 90% of the time. Saves lots of time compared to going to Google first.

- I ask it for help writing tests or help refactoring code

- I asked it for help in creating some policy & procedures docs that we needed for compliance. Essentially gives you a decent template to then build from & customize.

- Lots of other things. It replaced Google for so many things in my daily workflow. It also helps a lot when you're not feeling creative and you need some ideas.

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> I gut check things with Google when I feel like it might be hallucinating but generally it does really well ~ 90% of the time. Saves lots of time compared to going to Google first.

I was asking chatGPT give me boilerplate for Fabricjs Object today and it added a random object property which was nowhere to be found on official docs. At first I thought it was amazing to get a real looking code but upon testing I was confused how to take this.