A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT

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323 points timbilt | 1 comments | 13 Nov 24 19:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.387s | source

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RobinL ◴[13 Nov 24 19:44 UTC] No.42129191[source]▶

I think this is pretty good advice.

I think often AI sceptics go too far in assuming users blindly use the AI to do everything (write all the code, write the whole essay). The advice in this article largely mirrors - by analogy - how I use AI for coding. To rubber duck, to generate ideas, to ask for feedback, to ask for alternatives and for criticism.

Usually it cannot write the whole thing (essay, program )in one go, but by iterating bewteen the AI and myself, I definitely end up with better results.

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SunlitCat ◴[13 Nov 24 19:56 UTC] No.42129299[source]▶

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Well, I got chatgpt (gpt4o) to write me a very basic json parser once (and a gltf parser). Although it was very basic and lacking any error checking, it did what i asked it (although not in one go, i had to refine my questions multiple times).

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amelius ◴[13 Nov 24 20:26 UTC] No.42129595[source]▶

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Chatgpt is great for writing regular expressions by the way.

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1. pkaye ◴[13 Nov 24 22:35 UTC] No.42130956[source]▶

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I've been using it to debug issues with config files and stuff. I just provide all the config files and error log to Chatgpt and it give a few possibilities which I fix or confirm is not an issue. If it still fails, I send the updated config files and error logs and get a new reply and repeat.

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