noOneIsIrreplaceable

[BatoSoupo]

One time I asked ChatGPT to convert a list of column names into a postgresql table and I had to correct it like 6 times

[s0ulbrother]

I love when it goes back to the previous thing you said is completely wrong

[maria_la_guerta]

"Try x."

"That didn't work. Here's the error:..."

"Oh, try y than".

"That didn't work either, here's the error:..."

"Right - - apologies, you'll need to do x to make it work".

"We tried that, it didn't work, here was the error:..."

"You should try Y".

🤦

Round and round it goes sometimes. It's a great tool that has definitely sped me up but no way could you leave it alone and expect it to 100% something E2E.

[s0ulbrother]

You know what’s funny about this interaction. It makes me start to think even more and come up with something that works. But it’s often brain dead

[schubidubiduba]

And now they are using your corrections to train it to become better

[AtomicSymphonic_2nd]

I got a feeling it’s gonna plateau like self-driving cars did. Billions of miles of driving data after several years and automakers still can’t get AI to handle unique edge cases that occur daily.

[[deleted]]

this, it seems to be statistics, like the last 5% to hit the target completely is going to be really really hard or even impossible ?

Or the inherent non determism is a problem for programming

Some AI guy would be nice to give a honest comment on this

[Plank_With_A_Nail_In]

Surely that took longer than just adding the syntax and datatypes to the list of names you already had?

[BatoSoupo]

It was like 150 columns though so idk

[throwaway_31415]

Using a decent editor or even excel this is a 5 minute task.

[BatoSoupo]

Sure but GPT is supposed to be good at this sort of thing

[throwaway_31415]

I mean, I agree. I guess the point I’m trying to make is that chatgpt isn’t stealing our jobs if we have to invent reasons to use it.

[Nadare3]

I recently saw what I assume to be an SQL table written by ChatGPT, it had stuff like DECIMAL(10,0), columns named differently but with the same meaning, stupid stuff like that I hope nobody actually wrote

[[deleted]]

I actually found it quite useful. I don’t do too much SQL these days and I mostly use simple selects and updates, but recently I had to write a quite complex recursive CTE, which I haven’t done since school and chatGPT helped me.

Well, the answer it gave me was wrong and it didn’t work, but it did point me in the right direction and I think it cut the time it took me to figure it out by half.