193
Stack Overflow Just Announced Their Own AI OverflowAI
(stackoverflow.blog)
Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!
Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.
Hope you enjoy the instance!
Rules
Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev
I've gotten really good results asking chat gpt for programming help. Problem is that it's wrong like 10% of the time, and when it's wrong it's very confidently incorrect. That wasn't a problem for me because I knew when it was wrong and could course correct it and get the correct solution and it still saved me time and helped me eventually get to the right solution. But if someone who's still getting started is trying to use chat gpt to learn, they could easily be mislead because they won't know when its output is wrong.
Definitely depends on the type of question. I find for documentation type questions I get the 90% good answers, like how do I do something with this library, it's good, which makes sense because that libraries documentation is probably in the training data. But for more open ended questions, like how do I solve this problem, I see similar performance to what you're saying. I think it's a good retrieval and synthesises tool which can really save a ton of time if you already have a high level plan of action and just use it to fill in some specific details.