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0 pointsscarface_741y ago0 comments

Assuming that people only share conversations they think are good, would that be bad? Isn’t that the basis of RHLF?

There are a few times on Reddit that I want to explain something that I know well. But it will be a long post.

I’ll be lazy and ask ChatGPT the question, either verify it’s correct based on what I know, ask it to verify its answer on the web - the paid version has had web search for over year - or guide it to the correct answer if I notice something is incorrect.

Then I’ll share the conversation as the answer and tell the poster to read through the entire conversation and tell them that I didn’t just naively ask ChatGPT. It will be obvious from my chat session.

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SketchySeaBeast1y ago· 2 in thread

How does ChatGPT support new libraries or features?

scarface_74OP1y ago

I’ve had pretty good luck when having it write Python automation scripts around AWS using Boto3.

If it’s a newer API that ChatGPT isn’t trained on, I would either tell it where to find the newest documentation for the API on the web or paste the documentation in.

It usually worked pretty well.

If the author of the library wrote good documentation and sample code, you wouldn’t need StackOverflow hypothetically if ChatGPT was trained on it

Apple is training its own autocomplete for Swift on its documentation and its own sample code.

dns_snek1y ago

We don't have to guess. Just look at languages which have been around for a while, achieved some baseline level of popularity to have a decent amount of public code available, like Elixir.

I haven't found an LLM that could reliably produce syntactically correct code, much less logically correct code.

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