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Nothing. ChatGPT is terrible.
I don’t use it.
nothing.
I’m working on something of an article to that effect, but… I also have other things going on, and worry that by the time I’ve hit all the key points and polished 'em up, it will be completely outdated. Obligatory lol.
I guess a couple key points for that general LLM article would be:
- Going in, it’s pretty dang important to understand exactly what a modern LLM is; what it’s strengths and weaknesses are. How they can vary widely in quality and usefulness depending on their engines and platforms you access.
- Just like people who sound extremely sure of themselves, I think it’s geberally helpful to think of LLM’s as highly-opinionated friends who sometimes have the ability to be incredibly incisive and useful on certain matters, but can also be incredibly flawed, even upon very simple stuff.
- Also hugely important based on service involved to get a feel for where they’re most reliable, and where they can be downright disastrous to rely upon.
I used it to help me with my hobby projects. I have an idea, and it tells me what parts to buy with what spec (like a 3000 rpm gearmotor, a 1:10 ratio gearbox, a camshaft, etc.) which I have no idea where to even start without it and without mechanical engineering skills.
When I need to come across as someone from marketing or HR. The silliness works out in my favor then
To drink out the waters of the land and darken the skies with the smoke of a thousand burning fires, to conquest and snare the hearts and minds of men until they are but slaves of the machine, thus I become your sole master in the ever burning Earth.
I also check for fun gift ideas.
I used to ask it a question here or there if I couldn’t find the answer anywhere else, but I wasn’t too satisfied with what I got. I tried to use it for coding but I kept getting funky answers so I stopped using it for that too.
The last time I used it, I was doing a repair job and asked it a question I essentially knew the answer to because I wanted to verify a step. It gave me an answer that was not only wrong, but legitimately straight up dangerous. I haven’t used it since.
I don’t really use LLMs.
Today at work I was working on someone with something, and we realized our list of tuples was backwards. He was like “oh I’ll have chatgpt fix it”
I was like,
[(x[1], x[0]) for x in stuff]. Took about zero seconds. Delegating to the chatbot might have felt impressive if it got it right, but it was also such a trivial task I wouldn’t think to use it.deleted by creator
Vibe coding silly Python projects.
Same-ish. I’m fluent in Perl, but whenever I use it to make a web backend I use ChatGPT to help me cook the JavaScript needed by the front end. No way in hell I’m learning Javas ript.
Boy I hope you really, really enjoy debilitating security holes if you’re using GPT to write your backend JS
I only do cosmetic stuff in JS. Anything that needs to be secure is handled by perl.
Good man.
I just recently came across Jules, an autonomous coding agent by Google, and was impressed with its free access level. I dumped a whole directory full of haphazard Python scripts I’ve been accumulating over the years into it and asked it to refactor them into less of a mess and it did a remarkable job turning the folder into somewhat of an actual application. You can hook it up to your Github account too, if you want, and it’ll submit its changes as a new branch.
Just bear in mind that it’ll make mistakes, I did have to do a thorough debugging run to make sure everything still worked the same. But the amount of grunt work it saved me was huge.
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When Google/DDG fails. Then inevitably it fails too, but at least it begs for forgiveness.
name ideas for various things and a last resort after hours of troubleshooting
Nothing. I hate it. It lies about easily found stuff, then is obnoxious and just. Eirgh. I’d rather a human lie to me about things, at least they’re like. Human.
