AI code is just bad code written by someone else that I now have to fix, and we all know the one job every coder loves is fixing code written by someone who you cannot ask: "why did you do it this way?"

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can definitely ask... It's just the answer might infuriate you even more

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER

[–] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It can be helpful though if you just need to find the right library function of proper syntax in a foreign language. Usually faster than a search

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Often when I tell ChatGPT what error its code produced it will immediately figure out what the bug was and fix it.

[–] lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

interacting with chatgpt is a learned skill

i’ve used it several times and while the initial code may have some issues you can get them cleared up with a few direct follow ups

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I recall reading a while back of one person's strategy, whenever ChatGPT generates code for him he immediately tells ChatGPT "there's a bug in that code" (without checking or specifying). It'll often find one.

Another approach I've heard of is to tell ChatGPT that it's supposed to roleplay two roles when generating code, a programmer and a code reviewer. The code reviewer tidies up the initial code and fixes bugs.

Since often ChatGPT's code works fine for me I don't usually bother with these steps initially, since I'm usually just wanting a quick and dirty script for a one-off task the quality doesn't matter much in my case.

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 4 points 1 year ago

And you know what you call changing words around to get a computer to do what you want? That's programming, baby! We are programming programmers!

[–] philm@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this is the way how to interact with it. It makes sense as well, because it's only predicting the next word based on the previous words, so it had can in hindsight find a lot more stuff and in general be smarter about it.

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do this with TypeScript error codes. It’s great at breaking down the problem. I never just copy paste code from it and I don’t think anyone should do that anyway.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

The art is the same. AI is just like asking an art student to draw you a picture. Might be good, might look terrible. Don't ask for hands.

[–] MR_@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve never had an issue with it personally but I’ve never asked it to do anything complex either