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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!

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I had a coworker come to me with an "issue" he learned about. It was wrong and it wasn't really an issue and the it came out that he got it from ChatGPT and didn't really know what he was talking about, nor could he cite an actual source.

I've also played around with it and it's given me straight up wrong answers. I don't think it's really worth it.

It's just predictive text, it's not really AI.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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.

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