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[–] Papercrane@feddit.de 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My brother in Christ that's why you ask questions on stack overflow

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 year ago

Just so they can close my question I’ve spent an hour writing as a duplicate of an unrelated question?

[–] kibiz0r@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

1 search result

Github issue from 4 years ago

Self-closed after 3 days

No comments

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[–] SaintWacko@midwest.social 19 points 1 year ago

Or worse: "Nevermind, I got it working"

[–] Jmr@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago

at least that way u can compare simiarities and try to find the cause

[–] peter@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or even worse: 1 result, the source code on github where the error message is thrown

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago

bc ur running python

[–] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

did you ever get a a useful answer from ChatGPT? I never did.

[–] hwngle03@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

I would say yes, mostly when I'm using it to create image ideas for my website about immagini buongiorno nuove 2024 gratis. I'm not sure if it's still effective with other tasks.

[–] auhu@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 9 points 1 year ago

chatgpt is utterly horrible at Minecraft commands, it just throws out pseudocode lol

[–] theterrasque@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago

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 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yes just need good prompts

[–] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It takes more time to engineer prompts than to solve the actual problem.

[–] P1r4nha@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] dan@upvote.au 16 points 1 year ago

And then ChatGPT gives you some nonsense that doesn't actually work.

[–] egosummiki@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welcome to programming for consoles. No stackoverflow, no google. Only official docs and internal forums.

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

at least theres docs

[–] SaintWacko@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

What is this, c/nosleep?

I barely even use stackoverflow anymore since GPT-4 arrived.

[–] Doesnotexist@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

To discover a never before seen error. I love that feeling

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] AlmightyTritan@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

As someone constantly doing stuff on the line of stupid and cutting edge constantly, might need to start doing this.

That or add to the wild west of JavaScript and start writing medium articles about it.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Only search result is a post you made 10 years ago asking the same question.

[–] gptnederlands@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] AlexanderRibeiro@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Actually, when ChatGPT appeared, it changed my way and understanding of AI