<story><title>Programming AIs worry me</title><url>https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/programming-ais-worry-me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jarjoura</author><text>Just like a human, don&amp;#x27;t use these new AI tools to read your mind.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve found ChatGPT to be impressively helpful at knowing where to continue to look for something. I can write a sentence and explain what I&amp;#x27;m looking for, and maybe even paste in a code snippet, and 10 seconds later I get enough information to go back to Google and continue digging deeper.&lt;p&gt;For me it&amp;#x27;s become a bridge tool. Instead of spending an hour trying to get Google to understand my confusion and endless ads thrown my way, I get a very concise answer with full definitions in case I needed to know. It understands me, which is the most important part.&lt;p&gt;The code examples it spits out are meh, and likely always going to be error prone, but I cannot imagine it won&amp;#x27;t improve over time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chaosbolt</author><text>Yeah it&amp;#x27;s great as an assistant to a critical thinking human, people who are criticizing it are either doing it for clickbait aka money or expected it go think for them.&lt;p&gt;Like it showed me how to split an audio file into parts with ffmpeg, I&amp;#x27;m sure I knew it at some point but it took me less time than reading the -h or looking for an answer on stackoverflow, especially with google&amp;#x27;s greed that it stopped showing stackoverflow first and sometimes leaves it to the 2nd page and fills the first with garbage, started using yandex as an alternative to google a year ago, now using it by default and google from time to time, it&amp;#x27;s sad that the best product is behind us.</text></comment>
<story><title>Programming AIs worry me</title><url>https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/programming-ais-worry-me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jarjoura</author><text>Just like a human, don&amp;#x27;t use these new AI tools to read your mind.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve found ChatGPT to be impressively helpful at knowing where to continue to look for something. I can write a sentence and explain what I&amp;#x27;m looking for, and maybe even paste in a code snippet, and 10 seconds later I get enough information to go back to Google and continue digging deeper.&lt;p&gt;For me it&amp;#x27;s become a bridge tool. Instead of spending an hour trying to get Google to understand my confusion and endless ads thrown my way, I get a very concise answer with full definitions in case I needed to know. It understands me, which is the most important part.&lt;p&gt;The code examples it spits out are meh, and likely always going to be error prone, but I cannot imagine it won&amp;#x27;t improve over time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baby</author><text>This makes me think that what’s really missing from these new AI is a response that asks for more context, instead of directly attempting to give you a correct answer. Often my questions don’t have enough contexts to be answered correctly but the AI never tells me that</text></comment>