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GeneralRe: Is ChatGPT worth the effort for a developer? Pin
jochance17-Jul-23 4:35
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Matt Bond17-Jul-23 4:58
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Matt Bond18-Jul-23 2:32
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Matt Bond18-Jul-23 5:18
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David On Life17-Jul-23 15:51
David On Life17-Jul-23 15:51 
Short answer: it depends on what you're doing. If you can easily and completely describe what you need or break it down into pieces that it can handle, it can be a real asset. However, I don't even try to use it for lots of things where I figure telling it what I need/want to do is going to be harder than just doing it myself (or where I need to make lots of little changes in a lot of places, like refactoring).

Chat GPT (and GitHub CoPilot) have written a lot of code for me. It writes new code much faster than I could and sometimes better (I once removed some 'excess code' Chat GPT added, and then had to turn around and put it back, other times it's thought of things I didn't, yet).

It's also written incorrect code or poorly written code and changes styles on me at times. Typically, I can get it to correct its own work faster than I can do it myself; however, I'm always running up against the token limit.

However, most of the issues I'm hitting are just growing pains. It's going to get a lot better and quickly. (I've already figured out how to make it better, but I'll probably wait for someone else to do it.)

One thing that might help (for now) is to have some standard text you add to each prompt about code quality, efficiency or the style that you prefer. Or you can just ask Chat GPT to make it better. For example, in your example, did you try asking Chat GPT to rewrite the code it gave you to be more efficient? Or you might ask it if there's a way to make the other code (block 2) more efficient? Clearly it understood enough to know which was more efficient, so it probably knows how to write more efficient code, you just have to let it know that's important to you. (If you use the Chat GPT API directly you can provide standard context information, so you could plug in things you want it to consider there.)

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