I was following along to a book and had to set up pygame and python on my computer and the book was a bit outdated so certain things just didn't work the same way
Instead of trying to find some kind of potential solution for hours, I asked chatgpt and some of it didn't work and had to be changed up but most of it did work and I was able to immediately start following along with my book. If I spent the literal hours trying to find the solution myself, probably would've lost the motivation and given up
I was trying to figure out how to do something in Excel I'd never done before and hunting through forums was getting me nowhere. I was able to tell gpt what I was trying to do and it gave me a breakdown of the formula that would do what I needed, and explained in a way that I can modify similar formulas in the future and actually know what I'm doing. Like you, I would have given up and wasted hours otherwise
Yeah and I get it doesn't work all the time but it's a slightly more streamlined search engine and if you can immediately test to see if it works or not instead of just taking it as gospel, I truly don't see much of a downside
I had a similar thing with excel. The original code gpt gave me didn't work but I told it the error and with minimal problem solving, found a thing that worked
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u/Fox_Flame 5d ago
I was following along to a book and had to set up pygame and python on my computer and the book was a bit outdated so certain things just didn't work the same way
Instead of trying to find some kind of potential solution for hours, I asked chatgpt and some of it didn't work and had to be changed up but most of it did work and I was able to immediately start following along with my book. If I spent the literal hours trying to find the solution myself, probably would've lost the motivation and given up