What AI do you use

[tazdevil]

The good thing about AI is there will be loads of work in the future fixing buggy and downright failed stuff with fewer people able to do the fixing due to dumbed down AI skills. I asked Google recently for a summary of a large local authority contract that failed but it thought it was brill and still on the go as it was and totally missed that yours truly had picked up the pieces (but not the big money unfortunately as that had been squandered) It also coughed my own words back at me when asking about what I did, mixed in some other stuff and a few falsehoods for good measure. The problem is it only knows what's out there and most of that is garbage

[willendure]

The problem is it only knows what's out there and most of that is garbage

Thats why you give it what it needs to know. Want to know how to program a MikroTik router ? Give it the docs, then ask it.

[NotAllThere]

The good thing about AI is there will be loads of work in the future fixing buggy and downright failed stuff with fewer people able to do the fixing due to dumbed down AI skills.

Reminds me of outsourcing...

[northernladuk]

Tried a couple of them recently. Grok was ace for turning a photo in to a video, had some great fun with that until they hid it behind a paywall. Never got to grips with Claude and not really needed a speciality ones. The three Im using heavily are Git Co-pilot, co-pilot and chat GPT. Git with Co-pilot to do some coding for home projects, very impressive. Got what I wanted but just been continuing on as it's so easy to ask for something and it does it so having fun messing around with what was a small app in to a massive program with web interface and all that. Got some really monotonous tasks to do at my current client so using co-pilot to add a ton of VB code to word and excel to automate which has been great fun and saved me hours. ChatGPT just because I added the app many moons ago and am just used to using it.

One thing I have noticed when using them heavily for the coding and work stuff is how inaccurate it can be and if it's a chain of work how often it loses the chain. Gets very frustrating at times having to remind it and question its results to which it says 'You are right to point that out and are correct because.....' so still have to do a lot of double checking and have half a clue what it's doing for me rather than relying on it. Light or home users think it's the best thing ever and it's perfect but start hammering it and the cracks start appearing.

[northernladuk]

Reminds me of outsourcing...

and offshoring... but the work to reverse both that was forecast never materialised.

[ladymuck]

Tried a couple of them recently. Grok was ace for turning a photo in to a video, had some great fun with that until they hid it behind a paywall. Never got to grips with Claude and not really needed a speciality ones. The three Im using heavily are Git Co-pilot, co-pilot and chat GPT. Git with Co-pilot to do some coding for home projects, very impressive. Got what I wanted but just been continuing on as it's so easy to ask for something and it does it so having fun messing around with what was a small app in to a massive program with web interface and all that. Got some really monotonous tasks to do at my current client so using co-pilot to add a ton of VB code to word and excel to automate which has been great fun and saved me hours. ChatGPT just because I added the app many moons ago and am just used to using it.

One thing I have noticed when using them heavily for the coding and work stuff is how inaccurate it can be and if it's a chain of work how often it loses the chain. Gets very frustrating at times having to remind it and question its results to which it says 'You are right to point that out and are correct because.....' so still have to do a lot of double checking and have half a clue what it's doing for me rather than relying on it. Light or home users think it's the best thing ever and it's perfect but start hammering it and the cracks start appearing.

Interestingly, with copilot, it keeps your message history somewhere. So I was using it to find out why I couldn't find a Visio installer that didn't come with all the M365 bloatware. It sent me dud links and told me to create batch files that didn't work, and such like. I then asked what alternatives there were to Visio. It came up with some options, and said "of course you're already considering LibreOffice so this may work". I hadn't mentioned that at all in this "conversation" and asked where it got that from. Which is when it said that although I've deleted previous chats, my entire chat history is still available to it and it was referencing that.

However, as you rightly say, when you're mid chat and fully expecting the whole context of the task at hand to be remembered, it will conveniently forget.

[BlueSharp]

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