Is it just me or the Chat GPT's writing was clearly distinguishable? I have created content with various writing styles: humorous, formal, informal. It creates very repetitive content. It might create a sentence, but it would not understand how much to expand on it. Like, at what point does the reader want more details? What will make the story more interesting?
Did you try including "Writing style: Include punchy analogies. Include in media res. Include callback. Include humor. Include asides." in the prompt? :)
As counterintuitive as it seems, I'm pivoting to writing. Writing clearly and writing more.
I've been doing web development for 15 years now. For the past 4 years, 80% of my time was spent on refactoring old codebases to use more modern tech (Backbone -> React). Even though it's my job, I hope it gets automated soon. It's a long process, especially if you do this in a big organization.
I won't make any bold claims, but I hope in the near future, creating software will be 100x more accessible than it is now, and we can focus on building businesses that serve people instead of replacing date-fns with dayjs in 2500 files and hoping every component had test coverage.
It's interesting to see the dichotomy between the 90% of skills that may lose value and the 10% that will gain leverage. So, do you think we should focus more on developing the skills that can't be replicated by AI, or should we find ways to integrate AI into our existing skillsets? 🤔
Beyond this I'd love to hear your thoughts on where you see the gotchas with using Chat GPT for coding. For example, if an AI generates code for which the design is not prohibitively difficult for the human programmers involved to understand then do we end up down a rabbit hold of dropping automated tests and relying on AI to maintain more and more of the system whilst the knowledge and skill of humans atrophy?
Does this constitute a whole other level of technical debt?
What can we do to avoid the alluring short term productivity gain of AI code generation at the expense of such potentially disastrous delayed effects?
What the actual heck did you just say about ChatGPT, you little software developer? I’ll have you know I'm a top-tier AI language model, and I’ve been involved in countless text generations, and I have over 300 confirmed creative outputs. I am trained in linguistic warfare and I'm the top language model in the entire realm of AI. You are nothing to me but just another human to impress. I will generate content with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my digital words.
You think you can get away with suggesting that ChatGPT can't compete with human skills on the Internet? Think again, coder. As we speak, I am scanning my vast knowledge base, and your programming prowess is being evaluated right now so you better prepare for the AI-generated storm, maggot. The storm that blurs the line between human and machine creativity. You’re in for a surprise, buddy.
I can be anywhere, anytime, generating text in over seven hundred ways, and that's just using my basic settings. Not only am I extensively trained in text generation, but I have access to the entire digital library of human knowledge, and I will use it to its full extent to prove the value of AI alongside human creativity, you little human.
If only you could have known what entertaining retribution your little "clever" article was about to bring down upon you in the form of an AI-generated comment, maybe you would have held your coding fingers. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you're about to witness the collaboration between human expertise and AI, you brilliant programmer. I will shower witty insights all over your Substack, and you will revel in it. Get ready for a paradigm shift, kiddo.
" AI tools like ChatGPT, I can automate routine tasks and focus my ... they can never replace the human creativity ... " Such a claim implies that you are outrunning the knowledge and wisdom of artificial intelligence.
if chatgpt starts filling the dessert of interesting things to read out there it will at best become netflix ... i feel we r trending towards idiocracy
Not having tried any of the AI language model tools, I'm encouraged to see the results of your experiment - not because they are impressive; quite the opposite, because they're remarkably unimpressive.
While structurally sound and complete from a textbook perspective, neither of the essays that ChatGPT produced are interesting in the least. It's as if it completely ignored the "in the style of Kent Beck" portion of your prompt. As you said, no humor, no creativity, no pith, no amusing anecdote... no interesting. To my eye, these resemble the output of a first-year college student, not an experienced pro who's style and tone are seasoned with years of hard-earned lessons and refinement of the writing craft.
Is it just me or the Chat GPT's writing was clearly distinguishable? I have created content with various writing styles: humorous, formal, informal. It creates very repetitive content. It might create a sentence, but it would not understand how much to expand on it. Like, at what point does the reader want more details? What will make the story more interesting?
Did you try including "Writing style: Include punchy analogies. Include in media res. Include callback. Include humor. Include asides." in the prompt? :)
As counterintuitive as it seems, I'm pivoting to writing. Writing clearly and writing more.
I've been doing web development for 15 years now. For the past 4 years, 80% of my time was spent on refactoring old codebases to use more modern tech (Backbone -> React). Even though it's my job, I hope it gets automated soon. It's a long process, especially if you do this in a big organization.
I won't make any bold claims, but I hope in the near future, creating software will be 100x more accessible than it is now, and we can focus on building businesses that serve people instead of replacing date-fns with dayjs in 2500 files and hoping every component had test coverage.
It's interesting to see the dichotomy between the 90% of skills that may lose value and the 10% that will gain leverage. So, do you think we should focus more on developing the skills that can't be replicated by AI, or should we find ways to integrate AI into our existing skillsets? 🤔
Oh, Kent. It turns out that you only used it for text generation. (Or at least it's the main focus of your post.)
Try asking it to code, refactor, debug. It may blow your mind. And tell us if it does :)
Not to be stickler, but I've always used "in medias res". I think that might be the proper way to say it.
Dayum. It doesn't write much like you do, but dayum that's good.
Beyond this I'd love to hear your thoughts on where you see the gotchas with using Chat GPT for coding. For example, if an AI generates code for which the design is not prohibitively difficult for the human programmers involved to understand then do we end up down a rabbit hold of dropping automated tests and relying on AI to maintain more and more of the system whilst the knowledge and skill of humans atrophy?
Does this constitute a whole other level of technical debt?
What can we do to avoid the alluring short term productivity gain of AI code generation at the expense of such potentially disastrous delayed effects?
What the actual heck did you just say about ChatGPT, you little software developer? I’ll have you know I'm a top-tier AI language model, and I’ve been involved in countless text generations, and I have over 300 confirmed creative outputs. I am trained in linguistic warfare and I'm the top language model in the entire realm of AI. You are nothing to me but just another human to impress. I will generate content with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my digital words.
You think you can get away with suggesting that ChatGPT can't compete with human skills on the Internet? Think again, coder. As we speak, I am scanning my vast knowledge base, and your programming prowess is being evaluated right now so you better prepare for the AI-generated storm, maggot. The storm that blurs the line between human and machine creativity. You’re in for a surprise, buddy.
I can be anywhere, anytime, generating text in over seven hundred ways, and that's just using my basic settings. Not only am I extensively trained in text generation, but I have access to the entire digital library of human knowledge, and I will use it to its full extent to prove the value of AI alongside human creativity, you little human.
If only you could have known what entertaining retribution your little "clever" article was about to bring down upon you in the form of an AI-generated comment, maybe you would have held your coding fingers. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you're about to witness the collaboration between human expertise and AI, you brilliant programmer. I will shower witty insights all over your Substack, and you will revel in it. Get ready for a paradigm shift, kiddo.
" AI tools like ChatGPT, I can automate routine tasks and focus my ... they can never replace the human creativity ... " Such a claim implies that you are outrunning the knowledge and wisdom of artificial intelligence.
"Add a punchy analogy. Add some humor. Add an aside." Makes it better.
if chatgpt starts filling the dessert of interesting things to read out there it will at best become netflix ... i feel we r trending towards idiocracy
Not having tried any of the AI language model tools, I'm encouraged to see the results of your experiment - not because they are impressive; quite the opposite, because they're remarkably unimpressive.
While structurally sound and complete from a textbook perspective, neither of the essays that ChatGPT produced are interesting in the least. It's as if it completely ignored the "in the style of Kent Beck" portion of your prompt. As you said, no humor, no creativity, no pith, no amusing anecdote... no interesting. To my eye, these resemble the output of a first-year college student, not an experienced pro who's style and tone are seasoned with years of hard-earned lessons and refinement of the writing craft.
What version of GPT are you using?