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Ben Halpern
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Does an OpenAi outage have an impact on your workflow?

Curious how engrained ChatGPT is into anybody's workflow these days, depending on how you do or do not make use of these tools.

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BBM

Big impact

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Dumebi Okolo

Biggggg one.

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Monty Harper

I'm using ChatGPT in my learning journey - it's my go-to source for asking questions. When it's down, that does slow me down; sometimes I just do something else for a while instead. The advantage to ChatGPT is it can really help me shape the question I'm trying to ask - I often don't know what search terms to use, but I can ask ChatGPT how to do something, or show it the code that's generating errors. Its solutions don't always work, but then I can google the tools it suggests and read for more (reliable) detail in the Apple documentation, so it definitely always gets me unstuck.

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Nick Taylor

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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

Work-wise (or for development generally) I wouldn't touch ChatGPT with a bargepole, so no

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Red Ochsenbein (he/him)

Wait? Did that happen? No, does nothing to me. ChatGPT would only slow me down anyways.

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Adejokun Ibukunoluwa • Edited

when I get confused while reading docs. I go straight to chatGpt for a better breakdown/explanation and it helps out a lot

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Caleb (pxlmastr)

Not at all, ChatGPT is blocked on my school computer (which i program on) anyways.

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Thomas Werner

I guess I was lucky enough that I didn't run into a serious enough outage, yet, so I don't know for sure.

I use Poe, which allows you to switch between a variety of LLMs, including Meta's Llama 2. Sometimes ChatGPT 4 is down or super slow there, and it's still possible to switch to ChatGPT 3, which usually still works when that happens.

In worst case it's possible to switch to something like Llama 2 there, or Claude, but unfortunately those aren't nearly as good at answering programming questions as ChatGPT 4. They just hallucinate a ton more and tend to give completely wrong answers.

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Griff Polk

Hi fellow Poe user. I use it mainly for the customization of hew llm feature

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Travis Fantina

Not at all.