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   Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 07:58:28 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

   A thing that bugs me wrt to #AI, #LLM, whatever pattern synthesis tech you want:

   BINARY THINKING

   I understand the hype is exhausting.

   But this thing where someone plugs their ears and repeats reductive catechisms about AI is just as silly. The common trope lately is comparing it to Eliza.

   The truth is somewhere in between, unevenly distributed across use cases.

   Still, when this stuff works well it works well in life-changing ways.

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 07:58:22 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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     Oh, one other proof on this:

     #ChatGPT with browsing is now vastly superior to Google search for solving various Windows fuckups.

     Could not figure out how to eliminate screen tearing in #Cyberpunk2077 using the new RTX raytracing tech, which disables VSync settings in the game.

     Set ChatGPT loose on it and I had a working solution, including step-by-step instructions for changing my Nvidia card settings (you won't always get full details in an enthusiast forum!)

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 07:58:23 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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     I've been writing code for two decades.

     I've never been more successful across more projects than I have since adopting #ChatGPT as part of my workflow.

     It can help me interpret code I don't grasp, it can help me maintain momentum, and it can help me explore good patterns for solving a problem.

     The point is: this technology is real. There's more than hype behind it. It's worth drawing your own conclusions.

     Don't yourself become a stochastic parrot.

     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 repeated this.
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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 07:58:25 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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     But the effects aren't just about managing complexity and unfamiliar code.

     ChatGPT is a neurological prosthetic. A cognitive augmentation of my focus.

     I don't have an easy relationship with focus. In fact, things that are dull are liable to fully defeat a software project that can't compensate with the pressure and excitement of a deadline

     So I know: if I have a well-specified requirement I'd rather not write by hand, I can ask the #LLM to generate a first pass for me

     The project keeps going

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 07:58:26 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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     The results speak for themselves.

     A year ago, C++ defeated me. I bought books, I took notes, I googled.

     And then I gave up. My reach exceeded my grasp.

     This year? I shipped. Entirely thanks to ChatGPT’s multiplication of my power. Now, C++ I wrote makes my whole house more energy efficient, better-monitored, more controllable.

     https://github.com/daniloc/ThermTerm

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 07:58:27 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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     I'd rate myself as a 75th percentile developer. My career success comes from crossing the functional map: add decent code to good product design, and you've got serious impact.

     A year ago, I could only write code that I could, myself, imagine or make sense of.

     Today, the ceiling on my coding skills is whatever I can come up with alongside #ChatGPT.

     That is a vastly different ceiling. The evidence shows up for me constantly, as I tackle more ambitious projects and finish them more reliably.