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[–] [email protected] 272 points 1 month ago (44 children)

Wow, the text generator that doesn't actually understand what it's "writing" is making mistakes? Who could have seen that coming?

I once asked one to write a basic 50-line Python program (just to flesh things out), and it made so many basic errors that any first-year CS student could catch. Nobody should trust LLMs with anything related to security, FFS.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (7 children)

My experience with ChatGPT goes like this:

  • Write me a block of code that makes x thing
  • Certainly, here's your code
  • Me: This is wrong.
  • You're right, this is the correct version
  • Me: This is wrong again.
  • You're right, this is the correct version
  • Me: Wrong again, you piece of junk.
  • I'm sorry, this is the correct version.
  • (even more useless code) ... and so on.
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

All the while it gets further and further from the requirements. So you open five more conversations, give them the same prompt, and try pick which one is least wrong.

All the while realising you did this to save time but at this point coding from scratch would have been faster.

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