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by lurking_swe
700 days ago
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to be fair, expecting most software engineers, who typically have a bachelors degree, to be able to communicate well in english is not asking for a lot. Via a textual medium no less! But apparently it is… Most of my colleagues communicate with chatgpt in broken english, or they ask a question while leaving out crucial details about their problem. They’re always surprised when i am able to get a useful response from chatgpt when they couldn’t. it’s comical sometimes. I 100% hear you on the “not a fun way to interact” though. To each their own. I personally enjoy it, it’s like a rubber duck that can actually talk back. :) not for everyone though. |
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The problem is that GenAI is a complete black box with nondeterministic outputs. I can write code and I know with a very high degree of confidence what I expect it to do. Asking an LLM or a generative image program for something, I have no idea what it'll give me. It gives no feedback other than results, which may or may not be what I want. If not, I have to reverse engineer what I think it might want me to say in order to get desired results. And the same query placed another time might give a completely different answer. I don't deny that it can do some impressive things given the correct inputs, but I am not inclined to spend my time searching for the magic words.