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[–] [email protected] 191 points 9 months ago (58 children)

ChatGPT is hilariously incompetent... but on a serious note, I still firmly reject tools like copilot outside demos and the like because they drastically reduce code quality for short term acceleration. That's a terrible trade-off in terms of cost.

[–] [email protected] 125 points 9 months ago (9 children)

I enjoy using copilot, but it is not made to think for you. It's a better autocomplete, but don't ever let it do more than a line at once.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Same as ChatGPT is better web search.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

id rather search the web than chatgpt because i fact check it anyway

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if it does yet, but if ChatGPT starts providing source for every information, then it would make it much faster to find the relevant information and check their sources, rather than clicking websites one by one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yep, ChatGPT4 allows optional calls to Bing now.

It used to have a problem with making a claims that were not relevant to or contradicted its own sources, but I don't recall encountering that problem recently.

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