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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • You can think bigger than that, as an example from the other day, I got it to a Display implementation for all of my error types in rust, it generated nice user friendly error messages based on context and wrote all the boilerplate around displaying them

    Also got it to generate a function that generated a unique RGB colour from a user ID, did it first try and I could use it straight away

    Both those things would’ve taken me maybe 15 minutes by hand but I can generate and proofread them in seconds

    That said, I don’t use copilot I use chatgpt, it’s intentional when I use it not just being shoved in my face all the time which might help my opinion of it


  • Of course but presumably on occasion you do work in other languages? I work in all kinds of languages and so jumping between them it’s pretty handy to bridge the gap

    I think you could definitely still get value out of generating simple stuff though, at least for me it really helps get projects done quickly without burning myself out

    For small one off scripts it makes them actually save more time than they take to write (for example colleague had to write the permissions of a bunch of files recursively into an excel doc, chatgpt did 90% of that I did 9 and he did 1 lol)







  • I use it for writing functions and snippets all the time, at least in python and rust as long as you describe what you want it to do properly it works great

    Example I used recently: “Please generate me a rust function that will take a u32 user id and return a unique RGB colour”

    Generated the function, I plugged it in and it worked perfectly first time