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[–] [email protected] 86 points 6 days ago (7 children)

But how? The thing is utterly dumb. How do you even have a conversation without quitting in frustration from it's obviously robotic answers?

But then there's people who have romantic and sexual relationships with inanimate objects, so I guess nothing new.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you're also dumb, chatgpt seems like a super genius.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I use chat gpt to find issues in my code when I am at my wits end. It is super smart, manages to find the typo I made in seconds.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you’re running into typo type issues, I encourage you to install or configure your linter plugin, they are great for this!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Presuming you're writing in Python: Check out https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/

It's an all-in-one tool that combines several older (pre-existing) tools. Very fast, very cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I'm looking to integrate ruff more into my workflow. Do you have any tips coming from black + isort?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago

In some ways, it's like Wikipedia but with a gigantic database of the internet in general (stupidity included). Because it can string together confident-sounding sentences, people think it's this magical machine that understands broad contexts and can provide facts and summaries of concepts that take humans lifetimes to study.

It's the conspiracy theorists' and reactionaries' dream: you too can be as smart and special as the educated experts, and all you have to do is ask a machine a few questions.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

The fact that it's not a person is a feature, not a bug.

openai has recently made changes to the 4o model, my trusty goto for lore building and drunken rambling, and now I don't like it. It now pretends to have emotions, and uses the slang of brainrot influencers. very "fellow kids" energy. It's also become a sicophant, and has lost its ability to be critical of my inputs. I see these changes as highly manipulative, and it offends me that it might be working.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Yeah, the more I use it, the more I regret asking it for assistance. LLMs are the epitome of confidentiality incorrect.

It's good fun watching friends ask it stuff they're already experienced in. Then the pin drops

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

You are clearly not using its advanced voice mode.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Don't forget people who act like animals... addicts gonna addict

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

At first glance I thought you wrote "inmate objects", but I was not really relieved when I noticed what you actually wrote.