Just out of curiosity. I have no moral stance on it, if a tool works for you I’m definitely not judging anyone for using it. Do whatever you can to get your work done!

  • dbilitated@aussie.zoneOP
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    1 year ago

    i think learning where it can actually help is a bit of an art - it’s just predictive text, but it’s very good predictive text - if you know what you need and get good and giving it the right input it can save a huge about of time. you’re right though, it doesn’t offer much if you don’t already know what you need.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Can you hand me an example? I keep hearing this but every time somebody presents something, be it work related or not, it feels like at best it would serve as better lorem ipsum

      • surrendertogravity@wayfarershaven.eu
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        I’ve had good success using it to write Python scripts for me. They’re simple enough I would be able to write them myself, but it would take a lot of time searching and reading StackOverflow/library docs/etc since I’m an amateur and not a pro. GPT lets me spend more time actually doing the things I need the scripts for.

        • LordXenu@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          A use it with web development by describing what I want something to look like and have it generate a React component based on my description.

          Is what it gives me the final product? Sometimes, but it’s such a help to knock out a bunch of boilerplate and get me close to what I want.

          Also generating documentation is nice. I wanted to fill out some internal wiki articles to help people new to the industry have something to reference. Spent maybe an hour having a conversation asking all of the questions I normally run into. Cleaned up the GPT text, checked for inaccuracies, and cranked out a ton of resources. That would have taken me days, if not weeks.

          At the end of the day, GPT is better with words than I am, but it doesn’t have the years of experience I have.