[Rucadi]

My partner that is just learning programming, first asks the doubts to CHAT-GPT and most of the time the explanation and details are good, specific to her issue and easy to understand.

Compare that to a list of examples and documentation on generic issues/topics, without ever going into the specifics of a reasonable question.

Apply this to any kind of knowledge.

I think that it is a wonderful tool for education, and it is indeed changing the pace at which people learn.

[spaceman_2020]

I’ve been teaching myself to code for the last 8-10 months. ChatGPT has greatly accelerated my learning. If I want to accomplish something, I can ask GPT to give me an overview of frameworks, tools, and design processes to accomplish it - stuff I would normally ask on Stackoverflow (and get scolded).

I also like that it’s a judgment free tool where I can ask as dumb a question as possible without fear of being mocked or chastised.

[kolinko]

As a professional with >20 years of experience, I used ChatGPT for the same purpose recently, just with way more difficult programming concepts.

I wanted to learn how transformers and attention mechanisms work in details. After reading a bunch of books I went into analysing an example LLaMa implementation in NumPy - since it was just a few hundred lines, I pasted all the code into ChatGPT, and kept discussing the most difficult lines.

It was extremely useful in that role. Broke down with some more complicated matrix computations and some nuances of attention mechanisms, but besides that - worked awesome.