I prompted ChatGPT to write and adjust a linear Python script for a repetitive task I needed to automate. It took 30 minutes versus the 6-12 hours I would have consumed if I had coded it myself.
It’s a huge force multiplier when used properly.
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I used to do some coding in high school and early college. I’ve since moved on to other things but it’s fun to have ChatGPT write me a little python script or something and debug my way through it.
College in the US breaks in May. I guarantee users will flood back in the next few weeks.
Oof. I've tried it with a few Powershell things and it has recommended cmdlets that don't exist, parameters that don't exist, or the wrong usage of cmdlets.
Have you tried 3.5 or 4?
I haven't had many issues in 4. Occasionally it does what you're saying and I just say "bro, that doesn't exist" and it's like "oh, my bad, here you go." And gives me something that works.
I don't remember what version. I just gave up trying
Well don't expect it to just give magical results without learning prompt engineering and understanding the tools you're working with.
Just yesterday I had 4 make up a Jinja filter that didn't exist. I told it that and it returned something new that also didn't work but had the same basic form. 4 sucks now for anything that I'd like to be accurate.
Both models have definitely decreased in quality over time.
I used gpt4 for terraform and it was kind of all over the place in terms of fully deprecated methods. It felt like a nice jumping off point but honestly probably would've been less work to just write it up from the docs in the first place.
I can definitely see how it could help someone fumble through it and come up with something working without knowing what to look for though.
Was also having weird issues with it truncating outputs and needing to split it, but even telling it to split would cause it to kind of stall.
I love using it while programming but I almost never use it besides that. Not even sure what I would use it for besides that on a day to day basis.
I also use it for programming and today is the first day that I experienced the degradation that everyone has been talking about. It was spitting out the same code over and over, saying it was changing it, and then it slowed to a crawl and barely responded. Most of its answers were wrong and unhelpful. I have really enjoyed using it instead of stackoverflow for a few months now, so I hope this isn't something that's going to continue.
As for other uses, my wife and I used it to find a movie to watch a few days ago. We described the type of movie we wanted to see and asked it to recommend 10. We picked one and it was exactly what we wanted to watch. That was really neat.
I used to to write a resume and cover letter for me, which I then punched up. I figure that since companies are using AI to review resumes, I should use one to write one.
Sometimes I use it for laughs. I usually use it as a search engine one steroids when I cant find the answer to a problem. Not having data past 2021 is a huge limiting factor for real producity though.
Recently, I used it for book/Author recommendations. At first I also used it for coding, but now I just ask it to explain concepts to me (what's the difference between... / what are some ways to approach...)
Basically how non-tech people thought search engines worked at the beginning of this century.
When Im feeling blue I ask it to say nice things about me.
It's abysmal at this point... Whatever they did to it, the results are now awful and far more inaccurate than they were a few months back.
Idk man I’ve been having a blast with the API and gpt4. Once I get it workin you’d basically get access to gpt4 for pennys. Plus if you’re real whacky and pay for a per token subscription from elevenlabs you’ll have a voice assistant too
I used it today to write a formal letter. I hate all the blah blah blah. It spewed out exactly the kind of bullshit I was looking for. Cut it down to half and corrected some weirdness. It took just as long as if I was good at that kind of thing.
I actually just started using it as a way to flesh out information for world building a tabletop tools playing game.
Not all the information tracks, but it is ok for brain storming. When asked to generate a character it gets things wrong. It invents skills and classes. When asked to distribute points it forgets about all the skills. It is best to give it a task of creating a background, but it is very bland and doesn't go outside of certain ideas.
It’s amazing for DMing. You can use it to whip up a random town, create NPCs, and generate plot hooks.
You still need to work it into the context of your game and be ready to improvise, but it is a very nice alternative to random tables.
Same, I use it for ideas and inspiration, not fully built out anything
It's moderate at making up npc statblocks if I give it a description and a CR. I do find myself having to tweak the numbers a bit but it's great for coming up with special abilities or unique spell like effects.
I always knew it was going to be a meme for most people.
Well, if they would not nerf it maybe it woyld not go so much down
Well I even subscribed to it at some point. But they really dumbed down the v4 model, so it's basically on par with the V3 model. And since open source models have become good, there's no point in using ChatGPT anymore.
What open source models? Can you recommend one?
Hugging chat. Basically the state of the art conversational LLMs are hosted there for free.
Especially Facebook's Llama2 and any checkpoints of that model are solid.
And if you are a coder, I think there was one called "Starchart" just aimed at code autocomplete, which seems to be a good start.
But ofc as alehc already mentioned, these all exist on Hugging Face and you will find a treasure trove of AI models on there regarding every possible implementation.
Here too
I used it today and the answer gave me was right, but the explanation for how it got there was so ridiculously bad.
I use it when I need it to speed up python scripting for CG applications, but I don't need it on a constant basis. It could be weeks or more between when I'll dig into it.
Who are these people who have datos installed and opted in to the survey their net usage?
Is there any chance that this is fallout from the Reddit API changes? Lots of people were training LLMs using Reddit. If you can't do that anymore, then that would cause a decrease in use. Right?
That was way too recent. And it wouldn't affect the users of GPT directly, only the training, which wasn't using super-recent data to begin with anyway.
chatgpt browser extension is needed for news to provide summary on BS articles lengthened with meaningless filler words.
Yeah this is exactly the sort of use I think we're going to see become most common, especially tools that allow you to ask about news, events, social media, etc. 'what have my friends been talking about recently? Did Janet ever post a resolution to the thing with her mom?'
'What happened with those ships that crashed in the canal, did they get cleared?' or 'im thinking of going to Paris in July, what's been happening there and what's the weather like' and it's able to sum it up, tell you about things you might want to know more about based on your interests.
Also being able to actually sort and filter 'just miss me with the football news', 'just ignore any posts about my friends kids or bullshit about anniversaries, birthdays and stuff' - might make social media enjoyable to use.
Good. Unplug that shit and be done with it.
The decline in users probably also comes partly from free chatgpt. Currently there are many free ChatGPT on the market
Tracks with my experience - I played around with it when it first went live and then got bored and moved on, haven't been back to it in months.
I want llama 2 to kill it