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Please, please do not ever respond to a post with an answer like “ChatGPT says…” or “Claude told me…”. It is very rude.

It is wrong. These tools can’t answer questions; they mash words around, and will make up nonsense. When the machine does it, it’s just gibberish, but by posting it, you’re turning it into a lie, and anyone who posts or repeats it without attribution will turn it into disinformation.

It wastes time. Now everyone has to fact-check you instead of researching the question.

b52f447e... 2y ago

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It's amazing how many programmers and colleagues tell me they're using it to write software (even bigger programs) because every bit of code I've gotten out of them, if it isn't just buggy and wrong, is clearly mashed together from stack overflow and blog posts.

Which, tbf, these are the kinds of people that would just mash together SO answers themselves. But by getting the LLM to do it, you also gets little hallucinated bugs and extras! And you still learn less than nothing!

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Glyph 2y ago

nostr:npub1nq52crat03tppdmz5xnczxzuyx9qv3xjtrj5af2r5ug5r0tp3teqnvlyhk we are definitely learning some interesting things about the human mind from LLMs but not because they are like the human mind

3ac0182c... 2y ago

nostr:npub1nq52crat03tppdmz5xnczxzuyx9qv3xjtrj5af2r5ug5r0tp3teqnvlyhk nostr:npub1pfe56vzppw077dd04ycr8mx72dqdk0m95ccdfu2j9ak3n7m89nrsf9e2dm it's a balancing act, but they can save a lot of time for simple tasks where lightly editing stackoverlow posts is the right answer. Lots of stuff is like that: bash commands with sed/xargs/etc, graphing data with matplotlib... Unless you specialize and do it all the time, it's faster to have the computer make up the code and manually touch it up if needed than to reread the flags section of the sed man page for the 50th time and forget it before the next time you use it.