[COFF] The era of general purpose computing (Re: AIX moved into maintainance mode (COFFed)
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Mon Jan 23 01:40:27 AEST 2023
On 2023-01-22 00:23, David Arnold wrote (in part):
> I’ve played with ChatGPT, and the first 10 minutes were a bit
> confronting. But the remainder of the hour or so I played
> overcame my initial concerns.
>
> It’s amazing what can be done, especially with Javascript or
> Python, when you ask for something that’s fairly simple to
> define, and in a common application area. You can get reasonable
> code, refine it, ask for an altered approach, etc. It’s probably
> quicker than writing it yourself, especially if you’re not
> intimately familiar with the library being used (or even the
> language).
>
> But … it pretty quickly becomes clear that there’s no semantic
> understanding of what’s being done behind it. And unless you
> specify what you want in pretty minute detail, the output is
> unlikely to be what you want.
The comment by Derek Jones
(https://shape-of-code.com/2023/01/15/coding-mistakes-made-by-chatgtp/)
may be of interest here.
N.
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