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DungeonsAndDradis t1_izz15wh wrote

I'm at the point where I know what I want to do for work, but I don't know enough about the problem to ask AI how it can help. For example, I want to learn more about programming (I'm at a software company, but not a software developer).

I have a goal in mind. But when I typed that goal in to ChatGPT, it basically spit out the code version of nonsense.

I need to take like 15 steps back and start much more broadly with my problem, before diving in to the actual thing I need to solve. Read up on some specific APIs and use cases. Things like that.

I'll see if ChatGPT can talk me through using APIs in the way I'm envisioning.

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AdditionalPizza OP t1_izz1ox8 wrote

That's a really good use case to try and practice with it now. It might not be able to really help, or maybe it will give some useful insight I don't know. It's a good idea to try and use some workarounds now to see what answers you can get, and in the future those same strategies might prove useful when prompting a much more advanced model. It's all about hands-on time right now, and trying to learn what capabilities you can harness with the current model's architecture.

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DungeonsAndDradis t1_izzb5j5 wrote

I just had it show me how to make an API call in JavaScript, so I'm already on the way!

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urinal_deuce t1_j01b7tj wrote

Yikes, I just crashed chatGPT by asking about finding values in JSON with sql.

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matt_flux t1_j01sw34 wrote

This information is available on hundreds of websites so I fail to see the benefit. Can ChatGPT generate code that can’t be found through a properly indexed search engine?

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Working_Berry9307 t1_j024mb1 wrote

Chatgpt, no.

Alphacode that Google just announced a few days ago, yes. Designed for this purpose. I'm in structural biology, and their equivalent for that, Alphafold, has seen universal adoption in labs of my kind over this past year. It's almost always right.

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