But just consider how long it would have taken me to answer each of those questions just by googling and reading old forums and stack overflow posts.
Much like sitting next to someone with experience, a question that could take me hours to answer on the internet took me only seconds to answer by asking directly. GPT’s responses are still long, so it’s not pure conversational style, but the longer responses aren’t wasted fluff. It’s all relevant to what I asked.
Natural language as a way to query a knowledge base is enormously useful. Especially for something that requires update of existing knowledge as often as tech work.
Natural language as a way to query a knowledge base is enormously useful.
Great post. I want to highlight your sentence above as a key point, for folks trying to come to grips with where and how to use the current generation of AI.
Yes, by far the most useful thing is stuff like API and keyword documentation for poorly documented code. Its literally the promise of self generating docs for tedious shit.
Absolutely. I just built a little proof of concept thing where I loaded some GIS data into a google map to display the major rivers of the world.
ChatGPT, the v4 that I pay $20/mo for, was like someone with deep knowledge of all the technologies and APIs involved.
I’m gonna post a link to screenshots of the convo so you can see exactly how it went.
Not the whole thing because it’s longer than I remember.
https://imgur.com/a/Jh5BkMZ
But just consider how long it would have taken me to answer each of those questions just by googling and reading old forums and stack overflow posts.
Much like sitting next to someone with experience, a question that could take me hours to answer on the internet took me only seconds to answer by asking directly. GPT’s responses are still long, so it’s not pure conversational style, but the longer responses aren’t wasted fluff. It’s all relevant to what I asked.
Natural language as a way to query a knowledge base is enormously useful. Especially for something that requires update of existing knowledge as often as tech work.
Great post. I want to highlight your sentence above as a key point, for folks trying to come to grips with where and how to use the current generation of AI.
Yes, by far the most useful thing is stuff like API and keyword documentation for poorly documented code. Its literally the promise of self generating docs for tedious shit.
And it’s docs that form themselves around a specific question! It’s incredible!