Bit sad reading these comments. My life has measurably improved ever since I jumped on using AI.
At first I just used it Copilot for helping me with my code. I like using a pretty archaic language and it kept trying to fed me C++ code. Had to link it the online reference and it surprisingly was able to adapt each time. Still gave a few errors here and there but good time saver and “someone” to “discuss” with.
Over time it has become super good, especially with the VScode extension that autofills code. Instead of having to ask help from one of the couple hundred people experienced with the language, I can just ask Copilot if I can do X or Y, or for general advice when planning out how to implement something. Legitimately a great and powerful tool, so it shocks me that some people don’t use it for programming (but I am pretty bad at coding too, so).
I’ve also bit the bullet and used it for college work. At first it was just asking Gemini for refreshers on what X philosophical concept was, but it devolved into just asking for answers because that class was such a snooze I could not tolerate continuing to pay attention (and I went into this thinking I’d love the class!). Then I used it for my Geology class because I could not be assed to devote my time to that gen ed requirement. I can’t bring myself to read about rocks and tectonic plates when I could just paste the question into Google and I get the right answer in seconds. At first I would meticulously check for sources to prevent mistakes from the AI buuuut I don’t really need 100%… 85% is good enough and saves so much more time.
A me 5 years younger would be disgusted at cheating but I’m paying thousands and thousands to pass these dumb roadblocks. I just want to learn about computers, man.
Now I’d never use AI for writing my essays because I do enjoy writing them (investigating and drawing your own conclusions is fun!), but this economics class is making it so tempting. The shit that I give about economics is so infinitesimally small.
Lmao, it’s funny how most of these use cases rarely stray from the stereotype of ‘I can’t spend an hour focusing on something and learn so I’ll take a shortcut instead’.
Meanwhile at work all chatGPT has caused is misery as it makes people think they’re expert programmers now while I have to debug their shitty code. Do they learn? Nope, just repeatedly serving up slop.
Bit sad reading these comments. My life has measurably improved ever since I jumped on using AI.
At first I just used it Copilot for helping me with my code. I like using a pretty archaic language and it kept trying to fed me C++ code. Had to link it the online reference and it surprisingly was able to adapt each time. Still gave a few errors here and there but good time saver and “someone” to “discuss” with.
Over time it has become super good, especially with the VScode extension that autofills code. Instead of having to ask help from one of the couple hundred people experienced with the language, I can just ask Copilot if I can do X or Y, or for general advice when planning out how to implement something. Legitimately a great and powerful tool, so it shocks me that some people don’t use it for programming (but I am pretty bad at coding too, so).
I’ve also bit the bullet and used it for college work. At first it was just asking Gemini for refreshers on what X philosophical concept was, but it devolved into just asking for answers because that class was such a snooze I could not tolerate continuing to pay attention (and I went into this thinking I’d love the class!). Then I used it for my Geology class because I could not be assed to devote my time to that gen ed requirement. I can’t bring myself to read about rocks and tectonic plates when I could just paste the question into Google and I get the right answer in seconds. At first I would meticulously check for sources to prevent mistakes from the AI buuuut I don’t really need 100%… 85% is good enough and saves so much more time.
A me 5 years younger would be disgusted at cheating but I’m paying thousands and thousands to pass these dumb roadblocks. I just want to learn about computers, man.
Now I’d never use AI for writing my essays because I do enjoy writing them (investigating and drawing your own conclusions is fun!), but this economics class is making it so tempting. The shit that I give about economics is so infinitesimally small.
So, to be clear, your use cases are “copilot’s assistance with programming in an obscure language for fun” and “cheating on college classwork”.
Lmao, it’s funny how most of these use cases rarely stray from the stereotype of ‘I can’t spend an hour focusing on something and learn so I’ll take a shortcut instead’.
Meanwhile at work all chatGPT has caused is misery as it makes people think they’re expert programmers now while I have to debug their shitty code. Do they learn? Nope, just repeatedly serving up slop.
Just a few examples of my use cases but yes. It’s an even quicker search engine.