• ToothlessFairy@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    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.

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        10 months ago

        As a software engineer, the number of people I encounter in a given week who either refuse to or are incapable of understanding that distinction baffles and concerns me.

        • EatYouWell@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          That’s because it’s being advertised as a solution. That’s why you have people worried it’ll take their jobs when in reality it’ll let them do the job better.

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          10 months ago

          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.

          • tourist@lemmy.world
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            10 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.