We all know that trying to get non-pozzed responses to anything involving hot button political/social topics from Big Tech trained AI models is a fool's errand, but I'm wondering if anyone has found them to be of any use when it comes to programming. Despite what a number of my professors say, some of whom are definitely not diversity hires, I haven't found them to be of any use. Maybe it's because I'm only asking hard or niche questions when I can't find the answer elsewhere, but I haven't gotten any help from the bots in my programming tasks. The last time I tried it invented modules to a package out of thin air. Had those modules actually existed I wouldn't have needed to ask the question to begin with. From what I've seen the most it can do is help pajeets cheat in their programming 101 classes. Has anyone here had a different experience?
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If you say that, then you are speaking from a position of ignorance, inexperience, or both.
Show us. I think people will be happy if you do.
I explained in more detail about one recent usage l in this post: (not sure if there's a better way to link)
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/17sPFoXxFo/x/c/4Z8kybNWU3r
Here are a series of chatGPT-4 queries I did today. I'm not an Excel wizard, so this was helpful. The answers worked perfectly with no edits. I could have figured this out, but it probably would have taken me 15-20 minutes (the third query with summary by month was tricky). Not exactly programming, but programming adjacent!
"I have an excel spreadsheet with a sheet named "Details". There are many rows. Row 1 is a header. Column C is a "Category" column. In another worksheet I want to list all the unique Categories from sheet Details AND how many rows have that category."
follow up
" In sheet Details, Column G is called "Widgets". This maybe a value or it may be blank. I want to summarize how many of each category has a value in the widgets col"
another follow up
"Another. Column B is a date/time col. summarize the number of rows for each month."
Lol.
I both agree and disagree with this statement.
No, it is not sentient nor is it operating from anything like a position of sentience or AGI. Any one who says this or thinks this, cough journalists cough, are not worth reading.
Detractors of the technology latch onto this as a strawman argument to attempt devalue the entire technology.
It's a tool. It has proper and improper uses. It has things it is good at and things it is not good at. Between code templating, SQL optimization and generation, error checking, etc., my productivity is improving today.
If you refuse to even look at a tool because some mouthbreather on the Internet thinks chatGPT is going to replace novelists and become skynet, that's your error of reasoning.
It can, however, be quite clever!
Lol, one last thing. I inherited an insane Excel spreadsheet...multiple worksheets, years of data, etc.
pasted in some of the schema, gave some workbook names, described what I wanted to do, and it came up with some spot-on xlookup() vlookup() functions. Pivot tables make my eyes cross, and this took about 60 seconds to finish.
I think I've written enough on the topic, but I've given some explicit examples, etc., in other posts. Look at my recent posts or so if you want to see the rest of my thoughts.