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by bussyfumes 1040 days ago
Don't discard the juniors, maybe ask them to process your prompts for you. That'll give you some space.

I feel the opposite: I had a great experience asking GPT-4 to do some tasks for me and have been feeling like I'm missing out ever since by not using it more often.

However, I'm wary of posting work-related code into it so I either have to come up with similar examples, which is time-consuming or ask it conceptual questions for which I haven't been able to make it much helpful. Sometimes I even noticed that a conversation with a colleague produced a much better result and it wasn't even something very specific to the project. So yeah, I feel like it's a great tool but I'm having a hard time using it productively. It definitely feels like being creative with your prompts is an important part of getting value out of it.
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throitallaway 1040 days ago
> Don't discard the juniors, maybe ask them to process your prompts for you. That'll give you some space.

GPT can give incorrect, bad, or non-functional code. A senior engineer that reviews GPT responses will (hopefully) spot that and rectify it right away. Junior engineers can end up being less productive and not learn a lot when encountering this.

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willsmith72 1040 days ago
> I'm wary of posting work-related code into it

I'm always curious when I see this. Is it about potential IP in the code? References to clients in the code? Secrets?

In my last job they were worried about it too, but decided the cons outweighed the pros. Some of our code was client-specific (CanvaMapper etc.), but we would remove brand names and then go for it.

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