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• Jrockwar@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  To be honest I get your point. We use it at work for summaries of 70-page lists of software commits, and with adequate prompting to “understand” what’s what in our codebase it works remarkably well.

  Granted it doesn’t work near as well as a person who spends a month working on such a summary, but it does it in seconds. Then a person can work for a day on reviewing this and tidying up rather than wasting time trying to summarise 100k lines of code by hand.

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  • ravhall@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Exactly, you feed it some data and it gives it to you in the format you want it in. I use it all the time for coding. Not the kind that write the code for me in the editor but, with all the languages in my brain I often forget how to do something, and asking ChatGPT takes three seconds. I can also ask it for alternative methods for accomplishing my goal. Sure, using its code is a bad idea but it can get you to the solution a lot faster than stack overflow and you don’t have to deal with waiting or assholes

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