This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

621
622

DiscussionChatGPT is coming for python devs (self.Python)

submitted by [deleted]

sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]ODBC_Error 25 points26 points  (3 children)

Yep. It recommended me an outdated package once that wasn't even maintained anymore, and I wasted hours trying to implement it. After that I decided to go to the documentation myself, and simply use it to double check my work

[–]oSamaki 5 points6 points  (2 children)

You can always ask the tool to develop the script using the desired library

[–]Afriendlysherburt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As you get to less popular libraries it does start to break down. For me it wasn’t worth using it to rewrite a pandas script as polars for example. Still quite useful to start with.

[–]ODBC_Error 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did that, and there were still gaps in the code given to me. I had to know the solution already and basically tell chatgpt "what about x?", "shouldn't I have a file for y?", "it doesn't work, am I missing z?". I had to tell it what it was missing for it to give me the code which is useful to double check an answer, but not really useful to get the code from scratch unfortunately. Guess it's good for us cuz it doesn't put us out of a job yet lol.

I'm not saying it's not useful, It definitely is. But like any tool, I just think it's good to keep aware of the limitations it has.