*chef kiss* - eviltoast
  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Maybe it’s because I’m only using it as plan B or C (after the documentation has already failed me), but I have never gotten any usable code out of chatGPT.

    And yet co-pilot is able to finish my code perfectly after I type the first few characters… even though they’re the same model.

    • AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I think co-pilot works better because it has the context of the whole project for reference when suggesting auto completion. I’ve gotten a lot of unusable junk from it too though

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        1 year ago

        It can go from great to absolute junk.

        But sometimes I need some weird terminal command and it’s weirdly good at it.

        Also I get a buddy that can put log messages like “AAAAAAAA” all over the place so at least I don’t go crazy on my own

    • dan@upvote.au
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      1 year ago

      Co-pilot isn’t using the same model. They’re using a model that’s been trained on a LOT of open-source code.

        • dan@upvote.au
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          1 year ago

          Not that I’m aware of. Even if the input is public data, the actual training scripts and resulting model tend to be closed-source. Meta’s one of the only major companies I know of to release their models under a somewhat-open-source license.

    • garyyo@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      ChatGPT is amazing for describing what you want, getting a reasonable output, and then rewriting nearly the whole thing to fit your needs. It’s a faster (shittier) stack overflow.

    • legion02@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I go the other way with it. Give me something broken but close and I’ll use the documentation to fix it.