[HN Gopher] Analysis: ChatGPT is great at what it's designed for...
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       Analysis: ChatGPT is great at what it's designed for. You're just
       using it wrong
        
       Author : rntn
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2023-02-19 20:35 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | SketchySeaBeast wrote:
       | That does seem to be the most realistic interpretation of what
       | ChatGPT can currently do. Given the time and energy sunk into it,
       | though, that seems more than a little underwhelming.
        
       | ruszki wrote:
       | That's true, however, Google also "lies" to you, and ChatGPT is
       | quite good despite it's not made for answering with facts
       | specifically. It seems to me that it's not worse averagely than
       | Stackoverflow answers. Usually the right answer is something like
       | what it gives, and after that a simple Google search usually get
       | me the exact answer. This is good because Google can be terrible
       | for example with Jakarta EE problems, but ChatGPT with some
       | searching after that is waaay better.
        
         | fullsend wrote:
         | It feels like you immediately get on the right track and can
         | refine it with no clutter whereas when you Google you may
         | flounder for a bit before finding the path among the ads, bad
         | blog posts, questionable StackOverflow...
        
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