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Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate (ash.harvard.edu)

submitted 3 days ago by sirboozebum to c/technology

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[–] icecreamtaco 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"AI, how do I do in "

"Here is some code. Please fix any errors: "

These save me hours of work on a regular basis and I don't even use the paid tier of ChatGPT for it. Especially the first one because I used to read half the documentation to answer that question. Results are accurate 80% of the time, and the other 20% is close enough that I can fix it in a few minutes. I'm not in an obscure AI related field, any programmer can benefit from stuff like this.

[–] ameancow 1 points 1 day ago

This is literally the only field in which anyone says it's helpful, and I have made effort to reach out to users to see if it's really helping. And even then, about half the programmers I've talked to about it (out of maybe a dozen) say that it's either useless for their particular field of coding, or extremely hit-or-miss, it's more like a quick dice-roll to see if the thing gives them something useful.