AI for me is mostly a disappointment. I try to give it simple tasks like sorting data into a spreadsheet format I can use (so I don’t have to do it manually) and after five corrective prompts, and a CSV file that doesn’t properly paste into Google docs, I give up and have to sort it manually.
It’s a decent search engine right now, but not transforming anything I do yet.
Yeah, I am an Excel guy and it can't do anything useful for me yet here- even scraping reliable data and being able to trust the results.
What some models can do well (Claude/chatgpt) not Grok, Grok seems useless at everything, is research things for you, organise the results well etc. especially if you want also to logically research ideas and premises based on first principles. It does still fail a little when researching historical documents, it's not so easy to verify the results.
yeah, was using Grok. It sucks for this.
It'd work better, if you asked it to make a python script that does the transformation, rather than asking it to do the transformation, itself.
It isn't consistent, like an algorithm, but it can write simple algorithms well.
junie actually literally does that for some queries, i had it do it on one request one time a few days back
otherwise it's gonna make a request to the LLM for every single transformation, i just used it that way on one file, but if you want to make a change across many files it will fuck it up
They tend to struggle even with search/replace.
yep. for which reason i mostly do it using the IDE's tools for that. those things could improve a lot, like, it should be able to search for a specific syntactic structure regardless of differing whitespace. yes it's possible to write a regex for that but it's clunky to put \s for every space/newline/tab/whatever
maybe I'll try that next time
