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by Turing_Machine
1105 days ago
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> My problem with GPT-4 so far is that it's most impressive at doing things that I don't really need any help with That's actually what I like about it. It's pretty good at doing routine tasks that I easily could do, but which are boring and/or time-consuming. That frees me up to do more interesting stuff. One example I've given here before is porting an extension I wrote for the Atom text editor to VS Code. I have no doubt that I could learn to write extensions for VS Code, but using ChatGPT meant that I didn't have to waste hours learning how to do that. I just took the skeleton code generated by ChatGPT, dropped in my pre-existing code, and boom... done. Since learning to write VS Code extensions isn't my primary goal (or a secondary goal, or even a tertiary goal), that was a clear win for me. I put off switching to VS Code for far too long after Atom was EOLed, just because I didn't want to take the time to learn how to port my extension. |
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