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MixedChatGPT · 11 Aug 2023

ChatGPT is helpful, but it always says I shouldn’t do what I’m doing and I should use safer abstractions for my work

clnq on Hacker News

In the thread “How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing?”

Helped: General helpfulness for work tasks.

Got in the way: Persistent safety lectures and forgetting user instructions.

… I am a SWE and I work close to the metal. ChatGPT is helpful, but it always says I shouldn’t do what I’m doing and I should use safer abstractions for my work. I write the low level abstractions, that is my job. …