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  • pachrist
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    111 year ago

    The key with ChatGPT for me has been taken use it as an augmentation, not a gap fill. There’s some prerequisite knowledge required on my part. It’s a much more useful tool when it’s helping flesh out something I know, but have forgotten, or am familiar with, but not proficient. That means I find mistakes faster, and am less prone to having it loop or hallucinate. If I need to ask a question about something where I know very little or nothing at all, I’ll peek at a Wikipedia page or something first if I can.

    • @garretble
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      11 year ago

      I’ve asked the Bing one to look through some documentation for me before, and generally that seems to work out alright.

      “Using [some package], how do I do X?”

      Recently there was a Typescript thing I didn’t know how to do, and it was faster to ask the robot than dig through tons and tons of documentation. And I can still always double check (which I do).