That’s how I use it in code. Especially seeing my old stuff.
“This is gross, I don’t know what I was thinking. Use the method I used in this and match the formatting.”
Saves me 15 mins retyping out a full block or method.
When I use it to do anything new, I’m 80% done and tell it the tidy up. It’s real bad at joining in on the coding and just fucks things. But it’s useful and fast at crossing my t’s and dotting my i’s. Doing things like a final logic sweep like, “You refer to this in this logic but that block isn’t calling in the thing you’re implying.” You know, those things on line 350 that drive you insane for an hour until you finally have that, “Fuck! I’m an idiot!” moment and fix it in a couple keystrokes.
I’m not a skilled coder but sometimes need/want to get things done. So I’ll try my best get something that doesn’t quite work right then ask it to tell me what’s wrong and fix it. Once it works I ask it to explain the issue further. Its helped me learn.
The environmental impacts are real and substantial, though still on the same scale as video streaming which didn’t get the same reaction, so that’s not the whole story.
And both are dwarfed by the meat industry. Be fair to become vegetarian and continue using AI a bit.
I just had AI rewrite two pages of text from 1st person to 3rd person to use in different marketing material.
I had AI reformat text I’d pulled from a PDF that had weird line breaks.
In both cases, it wasn’t doing any “writing” but the end result was AI assisted.
Its a glorified spellchecker, treat it like one.
nah, I’ll just right click on the words with the red line under them and correct the words
That’s how I use it in code. Especially seeing my old stuff.
“This is gross, I don’t know what I was thinking. Use the method I used in this and match the formatting.”
Saves me 15 mins retyping out a full block or method.
When I use it to do anything new, I’m 80% done and tell it the tidy up. It’s real bad at joining in on the coding and just fucks things. But it’s useful and fast at crossing my t’s and dotting my i’s. Doing things like a final logic sweep like, “You refer to this in this logic but that block isn’t calling in the thing you’re implying.” You know, those things on line 350 that drive you insane for an hour until you finally have that, “Fuck! I’m an idiot!” moment and fix it in a couple keystrokes.
That’s assistance.
I’m not a skilled coder but sometimes need/want to get things done. So I’ll try my best get something that doesn’t quite work right then ask it to tell me what’s wrong and fix it. Once it works I ask it to explain the issue further. Its helped me learn.
I prefer to use it for really basic copy paste but with one variable changed. (Last time it still managed to screw this up by forgetting the plural)
I limit my usage to a minimum as while it’s proper usage, it probably runs on data centers that makes everyone unhappy
And for art, I don’t. While I could try to get it to give me advice, I don’t think it’s worth the cost
The environmental impacts are real and substantial, though still on the same scale as video streaming which didn’t get the same reaction, so that’s not the whole story.
And both are dwarfed by the meat industry. Be fair to become vegetarian and continue using AI a bit.