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

Programming with AI help is like having the expert chef at my shoulder, giving me tips, but he's high as hell on three different mild altering drugs.

Then he's like "That cake needs some lemon juice. Trust me."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's lemon drizzle that would actually be appropriate lmao.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. Every strange recommendation is either a brilliant technique I've not seen yet... Or just the AI hallucinating out of it's mind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Man you have to try lemon drizzle cake some time. It's delicious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe it's because I'm only using it as plan B or C (after the documentation has already failed me), but I have never gotten any usable code out of chatGPT.

And yet co-pilot is able to finish my code perfectly after I type the first few characters... even though they're the same model.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think co-pilot works better because it has the context of the whole project for reference when suggesting auto completion. I've gotten a lot of unusable junk from it too though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Co-pilot isn't using the same model. They're using a model that's been trained on a LOT of open-source code.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Alot of "open" source code ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Unless it's Microsoft documentation in which case it feels more like bill gates beating me over the head with the frying pan until I give up and find an alternative way to achieve my goal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Or AWS documentation. Trying to use it feels like getting tortured with thumbscrews.

I hate it so much. It's a cyclical maze of ignorance and frustration.

Google, on the other hand, may have my hand in marriage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If there are even any docs... I usechatgpt when i can find no usefull docs. Quite often it can find some information somewhere.