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YesChatGPT, Copilot · 8 Feb 2024

I found its explanation to be much clearer than most of the human-written articles I found online

solardev on Hacker News

few tens of thousands of data points

In the thread “Ask HN: How do you deal with LLM as a source of indecision?”

Helped: High-specificity queries and thorough comments improved advice quality.

Got in the way: Code generated by ChatGPT had minor bugs requiring cleanup.

… One time I had some analytics with a few tens of thousands of data points and the lookups were getting really slow, so I asked ChatGPT to explain how to make it faster and it taught me basic binary trees and how to use them (I never had a formal CS background, so didn't know anything about data structures and such). I found its explanation to be much clearer than most of the human-written articles I found online. But the code also had some minor bugs that I had to clean up. …