• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Yeah, I use ChatGPT fairly regularly for work. For a reminder of the syntax of a method I used a while ago, and for things like converting JSON into a class (which is trivial to do, but using chatGPT for this saves me a lot of typing) it works pretty good.

    But I’m not using it for precise and authoritative information, I’m going to a search engine to find a trustworthy site for that.

    Putting the fuzzy, usually close enough (but sometimes not!) answers at the top when I’m looking for a site that’ll give me a concrete answer is just mixing two different use cases for no good reason. If google wants to get into the AI game they should have a separate page from the search page for that.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      Yeah it’s damn good for translating between languages, or things that are simple in concept but drawn out in execution.

      Used it the other day to translate a complex EF method syntax statement into query syntax. It got it mostly right, did need some tweaking, but it saved me about 10 minutes of humming and hawing to make sure I did it correctly (honestly I don’t use query syntax often.)