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Have you used so-called "AI" for actually productive work ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With copilot included in Professional-grade Office 365 and some politician claiming that their government should use AI to be more efficient. I am curious on whether some of you did use "AI" to get some productive things done. Or if it's still mostly a toy for you.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

You shouldn't use it for search like that. They (Gemini and ChatGPT) love to be confidently incorrect. Their perfect grammar trick you into believing their answers, even when they are wildly inaccurate.

[–] thebestaquaman 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I use GPT in the sense of "I need to solve X problem, are there established algorithms for this?" which usually gives me a good starting point for actual searching.

Most recent use-case was judging the similarity of two strings: I had never heard of "Levenschtein distance" before, but once I had that keyword it was easy to work from there.

Also: cmake and bash boilerplate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Describing a concept and getting the term is awesome with an LLM.

I’ve found documentation and discussions of various strategies I’m considering in tech work.

I describe my idea, the LLM gives me the existing term for that strategy, and then I can find discussion, guides, and theory about that. Keeps me from reinventing the wheel.

[–] thebestaquaman 1 points 2 weeks ago

It makes sense when you think about it too: It's a language model, so it should be expected to do a decent job as a glorified dictionary

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