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by version_five
1081 days ago
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I've had a few sessions recently with chatgpt (4) trying to use it instead of SO to help with coding. Your estimate sounds reasonable, probably +/- 25%. It seems to be better at helping me with stuff I don't know anything about and that has more flexibility in the results. I got it to make a website for me (something I don't know how to do) and it did ok, though required a lot of back and forth, and it picked a lot of defaults, meaning if I'd had more rigid specifications it would have been harder. I tried to get help in writing a pretty simple python function (some conditional formatting of text) and quickly realized would have been much better looking up what I wanted on SO and writing something myself than get caught in an awkward cycle of taking it's versions which had missed various requirements and trying to get it to correct then. Anyway it seems to be best at giving minimal examples of things I don't know about, which is helpful. I'm still trying to find the right balance between when I should use it and when I'm better doing things the "old fashioned" way. |
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This is what working with an expert looks like. They can’t read your mind.
However unlike an LLM, an expert knows what questions to ask to help you express what you want. This is currently lacking in AI, it doesn’t know how to guide you towards a solution you can’t verbalize because you are not the expert and don’t know what to specify.