I am late to the ChatGPT train because I dislike the many charlatans who are overselling. LinkedIn is especially full of them.
Even worse are the charlatans who do their best efforts to manufacture irrational fears
😱 AI will replace us! 🤥
But I've also seen a friend using it for content creation. And he is very much not carelessly trusting ChatGPT. He is using it expertly after being trained to ChatGPT, he treat ChatGPT like an intern, to go faster in a domain he is already an expert of.
So now I think that concerning ChatGPT we are at the same time in the Peak of expected inflation and in the Slope of Englightenment phrases of the Gartner Hype Cycle.
And you?
What's a cool concrete meaningful thing you have done with ChatGPT?
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Non-work-related :D
I'm not an avid blogger. I sometimes start some experimental projects on weekends. I rarely complete them, but when I complete them I like to write about it.
I wrote this post 2 days back. Since you asked for it, the code walk through section was completely generated from plain code using chatgpt. I proofread it and I was impressed.
The rest of it is my own, but there are few paragraphs that ai has touched.
It is amazing at starting in a field we know nothing.
I have written a Python script, a language I did not know well. I have described the journey in my article ChatGPT, if you please, make me a GitLab jobs attributes sorter
C'est génial, je vais voir tout de suite, merci Benoît!
Chatgpt can make your work with SEO easier.
I used Chatgpt for creating outline of my tech blogs on medium. Also, used chatgpt to write a new diss track by Eminem, ;)
Generated a how-to for how to use 2 products together (Postman + Salesforce Rest API)
chat.openai.com/share/e5a61193-c57...
I've been using ChatGPT for a lot of things. First of all, is content creation. I usually ask it to write me an article about technology X, then copy it and rewrite it. Starting articles was always difficult for me, so it helps in that sense and it also usually provides me with some good text structure.
I've also used it for writing LinkedIn posts. I'm terrible when it comes to exposing stuff on social media but I had some projects that I wanted to share so I decided to try it.
But I think that where ChatGPT really shines for me is in creating examples for courses. Sometimes when I have to teach a new technology, creating examples and exercises to illustrate the concepts is not easy, so I just type something like "write X exercises using Y technology", than I choose the best ones and usually I can finish the list for myself after some ideas.
I also used it to get suggestions for naming the repository of a project I was working on. It was better than brainstorming names for hours like I usually do.
That's really cool, I have an article on how to write and I give the tip to always start with a first shitty draft and nowdays you can have ChatGPT to write hat first shitty draft, exactly like you said.
Do you mind sharing an example of prompts you use for ChatGPT in social posts or in courses?
Obrigado!
Not at all.
For courses I usually ask for something along the lines of "write me 10 exercises of X tecnhology using Y feature". I did a little search in my ChatGPT history and here are some prompts I've actually used:
For social media, I use something like these:
Made a technical support bot.
What was that experience like?
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I'm taking an iOS Development course from Udacity. Their first line of defense in the help department is "Udacity GPT." Basically it's a Chat GPT interface built into their website right next to the content, so I can always ask any question and get an immediate answer. I love having it there. I'm constantly asking it to define terms and tell me the difference between this and that. When my code isn't working, I can copy it in and get an analysis. Given enough context it can always figure out what's wrong. When I was learning about delegates the other day I wrote and pasted in a bullet point list of what I felt like I had learned and asked for verification. GPT confirmed my understanding and added a few points to the list.
On the flip side, GPT has occasionally contradicted itself. Often this occurs when I haven't given it enough context, or if I try to get philosophical. So you do have to take its responses with a grain of salt. I've begun to get a sense of when to trust it and when to proceed with caution. GPT is expert at correcting errors in syntax, pretty good at describing features of and relationships between various concepts, and struggles mightily with the reasoning behind things. When it answers "why" questions, it tries, and it speaks with an air of authority, but you can really start to sense that it's just cobbling together text without understanding.
That's super interesting, I also thought ChatGPT can be useful for accelerating learning - not replacing it - but you lay that out in concrete details.