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God I hope it just fucking collapses and pulls every other tech company down with them. I'm so fucking sick and tired of coworkers thinking ChatGPT is the most perfect thing that has ever been made. Every single fucking time I'm searching for something I'm asked "Why don't you just ask ChatGPT". They will not shut the fuck up, even when I show them ChatGPT is completely full of shit. Want it to write a simple 40 line script for Excel? Sure, just spend 30 minutes telling it, its code doesn't fucking work, because it's trying to use functions that don't excist. "You're totally right, and so clever for pointing that out! Here's an updated script that takes that into account", still doesn't fucking work.
I feel this, after searching for packages in apt that not only don't exist for debian, but in general
"But but but didn't prompt it right bro"
If it needs to be "prompted right", its faultry.
I've explained to to some people as "when I speak a language fluently, I'm not going to use Google translate to communicate". Vibe coding is amazing for people who aren't fluent, where they can translate between English and python (or whatever language of choice is).
I know exactly what I want to say, and English isn't a more convenient language for me to express it in
Can sometimes help to edit your previous message with additional instructions and regenerating rather than responding to ask for a correction. Also copy pasting documentation and code examples with syntax that is real into the prompt. Might also try something other than ChatGPT since OpenAI sucks in general.
Or just you know, learn how to code and do it yourself?
I for one would really prefer not to spend brain space on things like Excel scripting syntax. I haven't actually tried current frontier models but every LLM I've used isn't good enough to actually get good results vibe coding without applying some of your own programming knowledge, so I think you'd still want to learn regardless.
Brains are elastic and the more you put into them the better they work.
Are you a programmer? My general experience as a programmer has been that being judicious in what you spend time and energy thinking about is one of the most important things to do. The amount of languages, frameworks, and libraries all with their own syntax, documentation and quirks vastly exceeds the capacity of any one person to durably memorize, and there are compelling reasons to want to use a wide range of them on an infrequent basis and not specialize. Strategies to avoid getting lost in the weeds and find shorter paths to your actual goals were important before LLMs and they are now even more important.
Also, personally, my memory sucks, not everyone is dealing with the same constraints and because of that there is no single right approach.
Yes, if you're memorising them. You can only hold so much in active short term memory. Coding has never been about memory though. It's about understanding why.
You're right of course but they're not arguing in good faith. Wrong excel formulas in 2026? This person is either full of it, or they're trying to prompt gpt-3.5 in ancient Aramaic.