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YesGPT · 23 Feb 2023

I've saved hours or days on bug investigations by describing the bug and letting gpt guess why I couldn't reproduce it, and it was right

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saved hours or days on bug investigations

In the thread ““Chat GPT went down and 25% of my team could not work.””, replying to this comment

Helped: Asking for conceptual solutions and letting it guess why bugs weren't reproducible.

It is pretty simple to summarize the constraints of your codebase and ask for a conceptual solution, I find this much more useful than generating code. Similarly, I've saved hours or days on bug investigations by describing the bug and letting gpt guess why I couldn't reproduce it, and it was right. I can certainly believe a significant productivity drop.