My experience too. The few times I've been stuck and decided to try chatgpt, it's been completely unhelpful, at best suggesting basic things that I checked within the first 5 minutes of troubleshooting.
That was the best case. Worst case it'd sprout some plausible looking nonsense that took time to check and dismiss.
Only for well known stuff. If I can't find anything useful on the Internet, ChatGPT will start talking bullshit. Sometimes hard to catch but most of the time there's a reason why I still don't understand: it was utter BS.
No results from StackOverflow: you’re either doing something really stupid or something cutting edge. ChatGPT is good for determining which of those it is haha
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Papercrane@feddit.de · 44 pts · 3y
My brother in Christ that's why you ask questions on stack overflow
2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de · 25 pts · 3y
Just so they can close my question I’ve spent an hour writing as a duplicate of an unrelated question?
kibiz0r@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 3y
1 search result
Github issue from 4 years ago
Self-closed after 3 days
No comments
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SaintWacko@midwest.social · 19 pts · 3y
Or worse: "Nevermind, I got it working"
Jmr@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
Or
When your issue is the same as the other person's but then the way produced it is completely different.
darcy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y
at least that way u can compare simiarities and try to find the cause
peter@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 3y
Or even worse: 1 result, the source code on github where the error message is thrown
nik282000@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 3y
I had one of those recently with MicroPython. Turns out I am the only person to ever run out of memory on an ESP8266.
darcy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y
bc ur running python
ghariksforge@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 3y
did you ever get a a useful answer from ChatGPT? I never did.
auhu@kbin.social · 20 pts · 3y
If you ask chatGPT a question which is in any way niche, it will catastrophically fuck up the answer or give you the "As an AI language model" scold
bappity@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
chatgpt is utterly horrible at Minecraft commands, it just throws out pseudocode lol
theterrasque@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 3y
My experience too. The few times I've been stuck and decided to try chatgpt, it's been completely unhelpful, at best suggesting basic things that I checked within the first 5 minutes of troubleshooting.
That was the best case. Worst case it'd sprout some plausible looking nonsense that took time to check and dismiss.
mastermind@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 3y
yes just need good prompts
ghariksforge@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
It takes more time to engineer prompts than to solve the actual problem.
P1r4nha@feddit.de · 2 pts · 3y
Only for well known stuff. If I can't find anything useful on the Internet, ChatGPT will start talking bullshit. Sometimes hard to catch but most of the time there's a reason why I still don't understand: it was utter BS.
hwngle03@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
dan@upvote.au · 19 pts · 3y
And then ChatGPT gives you some nonsense that doesn't actually work.
egosummiki@programming.dev · 13 pts · 3y
Welcome to programming for consoles. No stackoverflow, no google. Only official docs and internal forums.
darcy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y
at least theres docs
AverageCakeSlice@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 3y
I barely even use stackoverflow anymore since GPT-4 arrived.
SaintWacko@midwest.social · 9 pts · 3y
What is this, c/nosleep?
Doesnotexist@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
To discover a never before seen error. I love that feeling
tdawg@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Or worse the only google result is to a forum conversation for your core framework that has been open for 8 years and has never been fixed
FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y
No results from StackOverflow: you’re either doing something really stupid or something cutting edge. ChatGPT is good for determining which of those it is haha
nik282000@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
Only search result is a post you made 10 years ago asking the same question.
elize@lemmy.nebtown.info · 1 pts · 1y
gptnederlands@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 2y
AlexanderRibeiro@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 2y
preciouspupp@sopuli.xyz · -18 pts · 3y
How about doing your job instead of copypasting shit? Jeez.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
Well someone wishes they could do programing I see.
tdawg@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
Googling solutions to your problems is literally the core skillet for debugging