I don't know if AI makes people dumber. But it lends me to believe that people who swear by it might be dumber.

Time will tell how useful the code generators are.

I should go play with chatgpt today...

yes cuz thinking is like a muscle

also the COVID vaccine re-arranged blood flow in people's heads, and you need blood flow to be able to think

and in general fear mongering and anxiety is gonna do a number on brain functions as well

if you don't train it back up it'll just stay there and atrophy

there was a book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

most people don't use system 2. when I read it I always existed in system 2 by default and had system 1 basically be my autopilot for every day tasks. now all I am is system 1 and can barely enter 2. totally out of practice. years of brainwork down the drain

and using AI will further take more people out of system 2 and into system 1, if they were lucky enough to have been using system 2 much in the first place

and then everyone calls you autistic even when you're not cuz you can think. so it's just socially weird now

@jestdotty found a pdf for this. thanks

So I asked chatgpt to give me an example of unit testing in Godot. It mentions the "Godot Testing Framework" and then spits out an example that doesn't use a framework and is not complete. So I told it that it didn't use "Godot Testing Framework". It says you are right and says that framework doesn't exist. But here is a framework that does exist and here is and example of that.

It did show me a proper example of composition though.

That isn't helpful for something so simple. My journey continues... I will get my prompt engineering degree in no time!

@Demolishun chatGPT is the worst for coding

o1-preview is good with libraries and checks its work a lot, but is horribly verbose and expensive

opus is very good at logic puzzles and kind of psychic for human, psychology conversations. my favourite (even though it's one of the older ones now and they can't seem to update it)

sonnet is ok

Gemini at least answers differently from the GPT models but it forces things down your throat. typical Google behaviour

and GPT is literally a hallucinating gaslighting useless thing that will confuse you and waste your time

@Demolishun what model are you using?

They are not code generators (or any generators) they are general purpose transformer language models. They don't generate, they transform. If you think about them like that, you will have more success. You need to give it a painfully precise specification of what you want and then they will do a decent job. That includes giving them specs of the libraries you want them to use if they are not popular and giving them examples and tables of the expected output.

No, It's not "prompt engineering" It's just normal enginnering, just in natural language. You still have to do the whole spec and design of you want anything decent

Well, I know much stuff of many subjects that I else not had known. Normally you don't lookup stuff you don't care much about. Why spend the effort. It's very good to give you the concept or introduction to smth. Is x what you need or even interesting to do full research on? Chatgpt. I've once uploaded many books there, asked it questions and then one book showed up a lot of times and then decided to read it. So, for pure investigating, it's the best tool ever. For really learning - not really. I've learned regex using gpt only and when I was building my regex interpreter I found out that it had many caveats that I didn't learn but would've if I just read a small book about it. With that one I shot myself in the foot and it resulted in rewrites of my interpreter. Book would've been faster. Chatgpt is more a tool for asking "can I do y with x?" and then research somewhere else if it's the case. Who's dumb is already clear, people copying literally what it says and pretend it's theirs

The people that are too stupid to recognize themselves what is gpt content. Just don't see it, and thus use it, and then write on this forum for example. The good use is to let it do small additions to self written texts if you have 90% correct English like me for example and you have to write something professional or for business. You don't let it generate for you. Smart usage: it's help tool. Stupid usage: letting it do your job. (there are exception: the design of my AI bot page is made by GPT, not because I don't know how, I just lack the creativity and won't be able to learn such thing. Other option is to make smth ugly and I'm tired of my own 'designs' while I care so not much about layout myself, css would not even exist)