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NoCopilot, GPT · 1 Sep 2024

the chat models have been reliably useless for my professional work and I therefore don't trust them much for learning something new

lolinder on Hacker News

In the thread “The thrill of AI is fading – and Wall Street is getting clear-eyed about value”, replying to this comment

Helped: GitHub Copilot as autocomplete; Perplexity for search.

Got in the way: Chat models useless for professional work and learning.

… life goes on. I got a few better tools out of it, but the chat models have been reliably useless for my professional work and I therefore don't trust them much for learning something new (see Gell-Mann amnesia [0]). And I'm not someone with my head in the sand—I fine tuned GPT-2 back before anything LLM-based had hit the tech mainstream, much less the general public. …