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by orzig 819 days ago
I also had to build intuition for when it will be appropriate versus not. It's hard to describe but one very positive signal is certainly "will any hallucination be caught in <30s"? Even in ChatGPT Plus you can have it write its own unit tests and run them in the original prompt (even in the profile's Custom Instructions so you don't have to type it all the time).

So a mistake was using it for something where runtime performance on dozens of quirky data files was critical; that nearly set my CPU on fire. But str>str data cleanup, chain of simple API calls, or some a one-off data visualization? chef kiss