Because it's almost guaranteed to have something wrong with it, it's a waste of time

Just because AI and ChatGPT is not perfect does not make it a waste of time. PerlMonks is not perfect but we all use it because it is valuable. Perl itself is not perfect but everyone here either likes it or is forced to use it for $work.

I am using AI a lot right now. Not just ChatGPT but other tools. They are making my work easier, quicker and sometimes better. I rarely get AI to write anything from scratch and when I do I make sure it is tweaked accordingly. But I am using it to generate ideas for marketing materials, overviews of materials such as training courses, planning schedules and those kind of things.

But more than that, I am using it to take long articles and summarise them into the key points. I have to read quite a bit of material and getting it summarised means that I can consume more content in less time.

To give you a Perl example of ChatGPT being very helpful...
I have recently written a module for Stripe webhooks and needed to document it. I always forget the POD syntax as I don't use it every day and I have to look it up. So I gave ChatGPT the Perl module and asked it to write the documentation using POD.

Did it get it perfect? No way...
But I don't think even the best programmers here would either because some of the things that needed documenting were firmly in my head and far from obvious from the source code.

I still had to write quite a bit of documentation but ChatGPT got me to a good first draft. It filled in all the syntax I needed so I could copy and paste and fill in the rest. It saved me a few hours of work and got me started on something that I had been procrastinating on.

In reply to Re^2: Did ChatGPT do a good job? by Bod
in thread Did ChatGPT do a good job? by cavac

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