3 Apr
2025
3 Apr
'25
11:50 p.m.
On 04/03/2025 5:37 PM EDT Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 4/3/25 14:21, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
My experience has been much like John's. In my company of 10,000 ish employees, the
entire company is "strongly encouraged" to use various "AI" tools made
available. The encouragement comes directly from the CEO (and all his minions echo it)
during his monthly video addresses.
So, all of us who write code have copilot licenses and they actually track how much we use
it (can you say layoff? I knew you could.) What I have found is that the short
suggestions of a half dozen lines or more are often pretty good. It's the bad ones I
have to fight the system to NOT take that eat up the time. I usually could have just
written those half dozen lines faster. But sometimes it helps a lot. Apparently it
tracks names and kind find the correct variable or constant faster than I could. A couple
of coworkers have given a good description: good for boilerplate code.
As for chatgpt not doing well, I suspect that is largely due to it being a general purpose
"question answerer" rather than a tool specifically for programming. I know of
at least one person who did, however, get hired based mostly on code written by chatgpt.
But he didn't last long.
Will
At 10:22 PM 4/1/2025, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
In another task where I wanted to quickly
generate a text-based
profile of a computer's specifications and components, it was very
helpful in writing a bunch of PowerShell. Did it hallucinate?
Perhaps once out of several dozen things I asked it, and in that
case, it was easy to see that the two clauses of the if-then were
the same.
Interesting. I got no help at all from ChatGPT when working through
some IBM 7090 code.
--Chuck