The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework.::ChatGPT traffic dropped when summer began and schools closed. Now students are back, and they’re using the AI tool again more.

  • Water1053@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    At work when I write certain emails or code snippets I’ll paste them into ChatGPT and ask it to make the email sound “more professional” or “optimize this code.” ChatGPT also talks to me like SHODAN from System Shock 😆

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      1 year ago

      I hope you know what you’re doing. That’s a good way to share company secrets with outsiders, also it’s uncertain whether you’re even legally allowed to use the resulting code.

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        1 year ago

        I appreciate your concern, but no worries. The company code is structured text as I program B&R PLCs and ChatGPT is pretty useless (so far) for that kind of code. The python code I paste in is more for personal hobbies.

        • 🐍🩶🐢@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          In a similar industry. Friend used it to write Wireshark dissectors for their interface between the PLC and software system. I haven’t used ChatGTP yet, but for certain boiler plate tasks it might be useful. I used to dump tag lists and generate ladder logic with some regex and python to fix the rung numbering within Notepad++. Dumb stuff nobody wants to do by hand.

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      1 year ago

      Except that the code it gives you back doesn’t work. It looks nice but horribly broken, sometimes it isn’t even the same language.

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        1 year ago

        Prompt better. I use it extensively and the code I get is usually a good start. But it can’t do anything.

      • 📛Maven@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        I use it quite a lot, and its code is usually either functional, or within a stone’s throw, and debugging its code is usually faster than writing something myself.