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KimSia Sim's avatar

Cool roundup

I particularly like the line

> the rubber ducky was replaced with two smarter duckies - Github Copilot and ChatGPT

One thing I realized when I used the smarter duckies is that their strength is also their weakness. They are too fast and too good. So they accept your question too easily.

I had an experience recently where i was trying to get an answer in StackOverflow while typing the question midway, it's precisely it's not as efficient that it made me realize my question had a wrong approach altogether. https://twitter.com/KimStacks/status/1605032489436717057

i wonder if ChatGPT and the like would ever be that smart to do that

I won't bet against it tho

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Sairam Sundaresan's avatar

Yes, I think that will improve over time. As I said in the piece, they aren't quite there yet to replace human programmers, and knowing that your question has the wrong angle is part of it :)

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KimSia Sim's avatar

IтАЩm not too worried (or I spoke too soon ЁЯШБ) abt the AI replacing programmers

But IтАЩm a bit less sure abt some of the overly one sided ( not you, Sairam) coverage I see elsewhere about chatGPT replacing the tools we have now

ChatGPT is great and my point is its strength now might also be its weakness

Then again I also look forward to GPT4 and itтАЩs chat version ЁЯШЖ

Happy new year, Sairam

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Sairam Sundaresan's avatar

I think there are a few who are nuanced in their take on ChatGPT. It's great but not perfect like you say :)

Happy new year, KimSia!

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