August 2023 check-in — what is different in your approach in the ChatGPT, Copilot, etc. era of development?
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I'll start the conversation with my experience:
I'm very curious by your last statement.
I'm a fan of the new custom instructions in chatgpt. I wish the text were longer and I could paste huge instructions there.
It's taken a lot of boring tasks off my plate, but I still have to oversee it pretty tightly — which isn't that much better. I can't say I'm actually more productive, but I don't want to dismiss what the next gen will bring.
whyand drilling further and further down on a problem is really revolutionary. I am 100% on board the AI coding hype train. Its like a more personal google search and its awesomeSeconded. Being able to drill down and keep asking why efficiently is a game changer for me.
Being able to ask why Is it for me too
Did u use chatgpt 3 or 4?
I use chatgpt 3.5, which is the included under the free tier
If you have the wherewithal to get 4, give it a try. It’s hallucinations are much less common and it’s error rates in coding discussions are much less frequent.
+1. The keep asking why did it for me too.
ChatGPT especially, is like rubberducking on steroids.
I primarily use it for
It really helps me to wrap up work faster and close my laptop sooner
I don't use AIs at all. It's a lot faster and less error prone to rtfm and do things my own way than prompt an AI.
Also really tired of all this hype and huge amounts of AI-generated content.
AI fatigue is real 😅
🤓 Personal side projects
I use chat-GPT on free tiers for dummy questions that help me save a lot of time
🤵♂️ Pro
We use GH Copilot, for now mostly for programmers and data-science & engineering.
As we use it, we tend to make better comments to get better results... and the question on maintaning documentation started to raise, especially this one :
Also, reading this book brought me a lot of inspiration around this topic, which helped imagine the future of programmers work at the AGI era:
Just forgot that I also use StarCoder from Hugging Face 😅 for side projects
It hasn't. I've seen a lot of developers leaning on chat GPT as a crutch. Their first instinct as soon as they get stuck rather than figuring something out is to go on ChatGPT and have it answer the solution for them. The problem is a lot of the time the answers it gives are incorrect or error prone and the very same Devs using it as a crutch don't know how to tweak the answers to actually get a working and useable solution. I tried GitHub co-pilot but didn't end up paying after the trial as I found as a .Net developer the tooling and auto complete within Visual Studio and Visual Studio code made development a lot more efficient than using any AI linked tools. I'd agree with a lot of the sentiment on here that AI ik general is overhyped at the moment and not all that it's cracked up to be.
I feel auto-pilot is giving more mistaken auto completetions than what i actually need. It has caused me again review the code again rather than go with flow that i actually already had in mind.
you’re right on this
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I cant tell you how many times gpt has given me incorrect code or answers. I have realized that it is over-hyped and still needs a lot of work before it becomes a useful tool for my development. I do look forward to a time where I can give AI a system spec and it will build it out for me and then I can work on it and ask the AI to build out new features. I am so tired of writing the same code over and over again, its boring now, i cant wait for advancements.