ChatGPT

[MrCrowesGarden]

While my “farting gender reveal party” hasn’t turned out exactly as I hoped, these results were too funny not to share.

[Arthur Dent]

Will we we ever see a human made MS Paint joke again?

[mikechamp]

That seems totally normal that Bojack Horseman's uterus would be farting blue gas out of his belly button.

[MrCrowesGarden]

I joke about Mo dumpster diving, but I never thought he’d go this far!

[MrCrowesGarden]

Coming this spring to a ballpark near you…

[ghostrunner]

^ That baseball bird is horrific.


Have to admit - being able to pester Chat GPT with every question I have about Python and general scripting is pretty damn great.

I've tried to learn many times over the years but I get stymied by my own curiosity and ignorance. I don't have an intuitive grasp of it, and I always want to know how different elements of code function, and why, and it's hard for me to proceed without having an answer. Help pages don't always do the trick and/or it's hard to find the specific answer you want in them. You can't pester people online with those questions and expect a quick answer, so I've always been frustrated in my learning.

Anyway, I started a 6 month Coursera course so I can better use all that in my job and claim a certification. It's pretty much solving all those above issues for me. If I have trouble, I basically ask it questions until I understand vs. hitting a wall like I used to.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

^ That baseball bird is horrific.


Have to admit - being able to pester Chat GPT with every question I have about Python and general scripting is pretty damn great.

I've tried to learn many times over the years but I get stymied by my own curiosity and ignorance. I don't have an intuitive grasp of it, and I always want to know how different elements of code function, and why, and it's hard for me to proceed without having an answer. Help pages don't always do the trick and/or it's hard to find the specific answer you want in them. You can't pester people online with those questions and expect a quick answer, so I've always been frustrated in my learning.

Anyway, I started a 6 month Coursera course so I can better use all that in my job and claim a certification. It's pretty much solving all those above issues for me. If I have trouble, I basically ask it questions until I understand vs. hitting a wall like I used to.

I absolutely love Python. Programmed commercial applications for 5+ years and have used it the past 10 for writing support utilities / test frameworks, etc. Ping me with any questions any time ghost. Might not be able to help much but I'll give it a shot.

[Arthur Dent]

As a regular Python user myself, I can also volunteer to try and answer questions if you want to post them.

[ghostrunner]

So I'm progressing along through Python stuff still and still using GPT for help occassionally. I'm on the free old version, but I find it still makes errors fairly often. If I had to say how often, maybe 5% of the time? And mine are pretty rudimentary questions.

In addition though, Coursera - a site that offers coding courses - now has it's own AI, Coach, available from the lower right corner and it also sometimes recommends bad code.

I was curious how to print multiple keys from a dictionary and it suggested this:

For example,

pet_dictionary = {"dogs": ["Yorkie", "Collie", "Bulldog"], "cats": ["Persian", "Scottish Fold", "Siberian"], "rabbits": ["Angora", "Holland Lop", "Harlequin"]}

Code: Select all

pasted the wrong code - see follow-up post

Not a knock on AI generally, but it seems like a lot of people are implementing it prematurely. They do offer a disclaimer

Coach is powered by AI, so check for mistakes and don't share sensitive info.

Still, with an inline learning assistance offering it seems like you'd want to be a little more judicious.

I also have a device management software that offers AI bash scripting. I'm more familiar with bash, so I haven't been tempted to use it much but I wonder if anyone has f'd anything up with it. Not that anyone should run without testing anyway.


-- just looked it up and Coach is actually based on ChatGPT

[Arthur Dent]

That code seems fine. What am I missing?