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by spwa4 518 days ago
I am making software for myself to learn, and to help my kids. I am using AI to essentially make A LOT of language exercises. It's really, really good at that. And learning is a lot more fun if you're creative with prompts.

I made javascript for a range of question types (things like fill-in, multiple-choice, ...) and have AI use that to e.g. generate short stories where you have to complete the verbs. Or replace some english words with german ones ... that sort of stuff.

Oh, and any time I need either tests or do something to a large range of variables, do what needs to be done to the first variable, copy over (using the reference) the list of fields, comment out the list of fields, and ask AI to suggest what to do. Usually only needs 1 or 2 changes.

And yes, I've noticed the hallucination. If you ask AI to correctly do a scatter-gather parallel processing in Go ... it's incredible how many errors it makes and it's infuriating how you have to explain every one of it's errors again and again. You have it output a basic structure, because that's still fast, and then rewrite the whole thing. I think it still gains me a bit of time ... but I see the point.