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   Zach Weinersmith (zachweinersmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 07:02:50 JST Zach Weinersmith

   I'm not a crazy AI hype guy, but I keep meeting people who think it won't work because it can't [x], when X is something it's quite good at, at least compared to most humans e.g. ascertaining context, providing nuance, using heuristics. It's dumb about a LOT of stuff and it hallucinates citations so you have to be careful, but it's an outstanding learning tool.

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     Rob Napier (cocoaphony@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 07:02:47 JST Rob Napier

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     @ZachWeinersmith I spend an unfortunate amount of time helping new coders with ChatGPT-generated code. Repeatedly, the code is worse than nothing. It takes them down the wrong road (often a nonexistent road), making it harder for them to find the right approach. Code-reviewing AI code is very difficult because its mistakes are not like the mistakes human coders make.

     You should not use an AI to write code you couldn’t have easily written yourself. You must be able to carefully judge its output.

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     Zach Weinersmith (zachweinersmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 07:02:49 JST Zach Weinersmith

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     Like, for language-learning, getting an instant, accurate, detailed discussion of a particular word is insanely useful. You can also set competency level and have conversations. It also helps with code and it slices my comics into panels and resizes for instagram. It's real shit!

     Thomas 🔭🕹️ repeated this.