Someone at work, "I saw you were struggling with that issue and I think maybe it's a redis issue."
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Someone at work, "I saw you were struggling with that issue and I think maybe it's a redis issue."
Me: "The issue is that once redis is installed, the other service stopped reporting. I think it's the firewall."
"Okay, I think I have a solution for you." [pastes a large block of text]
Me: "Hmm...where did you find this? This is all about debugging redis, but I don't think it's specifically redis at all, I think I messed up the firewall or something."
"Oh, I just asked ChatGPT for information and this is what it gave me."
Me: stops and stares into the void "....Thanks. That's....so helpful."
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Ari-hell, Count Starts-from-2replied to Oliphantom Menace last edited by
@oliphant this gets you an instant Slack mute and probably a discussion before I unmute you
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Oliphantom Menace last edited by
I sort of get it, I mean, it's not unusual for a developer to to be like, "I crawled the googles and this link seems interesting" but that means the developer actually visited the link. Reviewed the information.
People who ask ChatGPT for answers are like, "Aha! The answer! Great! Zero thinking required!" And it's like NOOOOO
And it's easy enough to suss out something written by AI or an AI-generated (wrong) idea but if I asked it about music theory or something about which I had little expertise, I'd be tempted, if I didn't know anything about AI, to believe it was telling me something logical.
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@arichtman Yeah, like I couldn't have asked ChatGPT myself? I didn't do that, so I'm not sure why they thought they were saving me any time at all, rather than wasting both of our time.
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Oliphantom Menace last edited by
There are certain mechanistic things that AI is good at, in the same way that sometimes I need a good pattern matcher.
If I've got a blob of unstructured text, I could try to write a regex to parse it, or I could ask the AI, "convert all of this nonsense into a JSON object with the following keys" and generally-speaking about something like that, it does a pretty good job.
Or doing AI/OCR (HTR) to extract text from handwriting, auto-translating, stuff like that.
Or as a more elegant find/replace tool, maybe.
But note that's largely mechanistic rather than creative stuff.
