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by mikeortman 876 days ago
This was the biggest win for me. One time asked ChatGPT if it could "write python to convert a docx to pdf using any python package of your choosing" and its response was a paragraph telling me doing so is difficult, followed by a python function, with just an inline comment //implement conversion here
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Probably better than hallucinating a wrong answer if it's stumped
No it's not.

It does (did?) this all the time to me generating tests.

I know it _couldn't_ know the right answer because I didn't tell it all of the model and serializer schema's and all that.

I don't care, because I know it is capable of generating very good guesses, and it is able to generate comprehensive tests, and I just need to tweak it to actually run. The problem is you have to shove it to even try.

Refusing to make any attempt makes it useless. If it's truly stumped then it'll be pretty obvious (assuming you aren't using it blindly).