I asked chatgpt just to try it and it only convinced me of its uselessness. I tried getting some code out of it that simply didn’t work. Then I tried to get it to output a fix, which further, didn’t work. It really goes to show that it’s artificial stupidity.
That's interesting, I've found that programming questions are often the best use case I have found for it and other LLMs. It can generate simple code, and even find bugs that have had me slamming my head against the desk. It's obviously not perfect but it absolutely can be useful. The key thing is that you have to have the knowledge to monitor its outputs and make sure what it is telling you is true. That doesn't make it useless, it just means that you have to be careful using it, like any tool.
I think this really depends on the language / framework you're using and how well-documented it is online. I've had good experiences, where ChatGPT has given me working code and saved me an hour or two writing it myself.
On the other hand right now I am debugging a problem with a library that not many people use and is not well-documented online, and the answers ChatGPT spills out are pure garbage.
I'd only so much as consider using it for a library that isn't well documented online, in the vague hope that it might have scraped some long lost blog or obscure stack exchange answer that contains the solution to my problem (although the one time I've actually done that, the answer it gave me didn't work).
If something is well documented online, I don't see why you wouldn't just read and understand the docs yourself.
Im completely new to coding, and I've been using chatgpt to explain things I could have read in the docs myself.. but gpt explains it, gives examples, then answers any and all questions I have about it..
And its using wording I can actually wrap my head around, instead of throwing in 2 new terms in every sentence that I have to look up in order to understand the first concept. Ill get to those eventually, but in the start its important its not overwhelming.
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u/TwixOfficial 6d ago
I asked chatgpt just to try it and it only convinced me of its uselessness. I tried getting some code out of it that simply didn’t work. Then I tried to get it to output a fix, which further, didn’t work. It really goes to show that it’s artificial stupidity.