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Me and ChatGPT Are Pals Now!

Ali Navidi on November 26, 2024

The first time I found out about AI I thought, Soon, he’ll take my job from me, and believe me, if it comes to my job, I don’t joke around. And so,...
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It's funny because I feel like that's the journey to AI for everyone. It becomes the goofy side-kick that you end up realizing you can't live without. Haha!

P.S Had to share an Eddie Murphy Meme since Donkey was brought up.

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Ali Navidi

Thanks for mentioning Eddie Murphy😁

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td5r

People fighting AI and AI assisted coding, are the same breed of people denying the use of syntax highlighting and IDEs back then, when these tools were coming. Of course, I didn't experienced that time, but a professor once told stories about that time.

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Peter Harrison

vim is all you need.

Kidding1

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Peter Vivo

My first step on company laptop, where even the github was blocked is create Open AI question in vim, and that is working fine.

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td5r

what do you mean with that?

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td5r

1 vim to rule them all

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Ali Navidi

It takes time to adapt, once they see how useful it is they will love it!

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td5r

I agree and it is definitely foolish not to try.

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Brian Hogg

The leap from “I realized it wasn’t good enough” to “now I use it for medical questions” seems … pretty huge.

Personally, the frequency with which Copilot gets stuff incredibly wrong makes me less interested in exploring different usecases for LLMs.

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Ali Navidi

You are right you can't trust AI with sensitive stuff like medical but it just suggest things to you and you have to double check it, reliability is a big issue for LLM applications but it shouldn't stop you to give them a try and let them help you. As I said don't copy blindly from AI.

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Brian Hogg

For me, the amount of double-checking I have to do makes it slower to use than not for a whole host of things.

The uses I find for Copilot are 99% intelligent autocomplete, where I type in a couple variables and it will correctly guess the next few (if I’m converting something from elsewhere in my file). That stuff is helpful, for sure.

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Valeria

Thanks for the article, chuckled ⭐️

What it that’s exactly where AI wants you? 🤔 I’m kidding, I agree with you - ChatGPT automates a lot of tasks that can be automated- interactive search, classification, data processing and manipulation. It’s as precise as information on the internet (and we all know that if it’s on the internet it must be true, even Albert Einstein said so himself!).

I’m planning on offloading even more tasks into AI - for instance writing same css/html layouts over and over again becomes boring rather quickly and I’ve seen solutions that can prototype limited in their stack, but working full stack solutions, so there’s definitely a lot more to explore.

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Ali Navidi

Happy you liked it! Totally agree, offloading repetitive tasks like layouts to AI is a game changer.

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Best Codes

I've written an article somewhat about this before!

It's a bit outdated now, perhaps I'll make an update soon…

As for how I see AI, I look at it like an assistant. Developers who use AI will replace developers who don't.

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Ali Navidi

Thanks for sharing!

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Kazi Priom

If I'm being honest. AI has been absolutely amazing when it comes to learning new things and debugging. Instead of going through forum posts of answers, I can quickly ask it a simple, often-asked question to get a quick and easy answer. For more advanced things, however, AI seems to lack a little behind professional developers. I still have a lot more to learn.

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Ali Navidi

Exactly, I still look at StackOverflow old answers first because I trust them more and then ask AI but I will no more ask new question on StackOverflow unless it's something really new that AI don't know yet.

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Jorge Contreras

I use it for the most mundane questions and is now my life coach… he knows my preferences, my goals, my dreams. He knows me better than anyone else!

On top of that, I have created a few GPTs: I have an AWS Tutor who answers all my questions related to AWS. I have a GoLang expert who helps me write idiomatic go and tells me fun facts.

It feels like a team of experts working for me and it is awesome.

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Ali Navidi

Exactly! It feels great to have a powerful assistant.

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Grenish rai

Ok woah. I couldn’t stop laughing while reading it, as if I was reading a comic. On a serious note, it's really amazing seeing the transition from hating the ai to gradually warming up to it.

At first I too was scared of it as well. But as I started testing its capabilities, I began to doubt my own doubts and just went along the flow knowing, "The time hasn’t come yet for AI to replace or overtake me."

Nowadays, I use AI as a helpful tool for creative tasks like structuring blogs or articles, improving sentences I’ve written, or even composing emails. And sometime while coding.

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Ali Navidi

Thanks for saying that! my goal was to make it fun while reading it , I'm glad that it worked.

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Manasa Jayasri

That's a nice take. GPT is most suited to summarize documents for me, saving me hours of work, so yes I will agree as a grad student, we became good friends over the years.

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Ali Navidi

Thanks for sharing🙏🏻

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Smitter • Edited

I liked how the post exposed my silent skepticism about AI

But you didn't speak about one. Front-end development risks complete automation by AI in near future

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Ali Navidi

I even asked chatGPT what "skepticism" mean😁

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MagicBuddy

Cool!

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