Ask HN: Is ChatGPT or Co-pilot making you more productive as a developer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238455

by edf13 • 3 years ago

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For me - not yet - maybe a little though, but I am trying both out.

ChatGPT I’m finding useful for more mundane programming sections (file access, content transforms etc)… interesting to see how much more productive it’s making others.

sharemywin• 3 years ago

It really excels when trying to learn new language.

speedgoose• 3 years ago

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3520312.3534864

https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-c...

edf13• 3 years ago

Interesting- thanks

jppope• 3 years ago

yes, but just for the mundane stuff...

oz5d• 3 years ago

ChatGPT is useful in less complex things, say I want to send a JSON Get request to my server using JQuery. I can easily ask and it returns right away. But as the difficulty rises the code it makes becomes more error-prone.

ryandetzel• 3 years ago

This, I've been using it daily for small tasks instead of google and it's faster and better. "Write a mongo query in node that gets x,y,z and then returns only the q,w,e fields sorts by y" is one I just wrote. Since I don't write mongo queries often I forget the syntax

VirusNewbie• 3 years ago

No, not yet. It's frustrating, I was hoping code completion would be much improved and it doesn't seem to be the case.

I have high hopes that ChatGPT could help us DESIGN better libraries or programming languages though.

thebigspacefuck• 3 years ago

It’s definitely at least $10 of productivity (a matter of minutes for most of us I’m guessing), so I will continue to subscribe.

f0e4c2f7• 3 years ago

If you haven't tried it, use the GPT4 model. It's available now with the ChatGPT+ subscription. Significant improvement.

swah• 3 years ago

Copilot helps me with a function every other day, but I feel like its mostly me trying to have fun and test this thing. Curated snippets would be faster but this is so easy and adapts to the code around.

apineda• 3 years ago

Not enough to be game changing yet but for documentation on processes it has helped. Where I do enjoy using it is for learning though and digging into things that have always itched me but I could never bother to find the answers to ( due to slog of search/review cycle ). For example when reviewing history of math I would ask about where the word equation came from, and so on. I always liked to dig a bit beneath and teachers hated that! Not GPT :)

majestic5762• 3 years ago

Same. Copilot can get a bit useful after it understands your intent and starts hinting code from your codebase. Or sometimes i completely forget basic stuff like core functions, algos, patterns, and copilot jumps to help. ChatGPT excels at NLP, parsing or data transformations, but usually i use it for exploring general ideas and not necessarily for coding

Ask HN: Is ChatGPT or Co-pilot making you more productive as a developer?

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