ChatGPT cuts right to what I need as far as: (a) general knowledge of tools and what their purpose is;
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In the thread “Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?”
Helped: General knowledge, tool comparisons, configuration specifics, and best practices.
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… We use a lot of lots of systems, tools at work, and I need to write software to handle diverse areas. ChatGPT cuts right to what I need as far as: (a) general knowledge of tools and what their purpose is; (b) surveys of categories of tools, comparisons between competing offerings; (c) specifics on how to use, configure, program against various tools, query data, change things; (d) questions on best practices and pitfalls. This is mostly in context of macOS, Linux, AWS, kubernetes, observability tools, and APIs for lots of DevOps-related systems. …