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MixedChatGPT, Copilot · 11 Jul 2025

only one out of four times has it been able to actually diagnose directly what the issue was

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one out of four times has it been able to actually diagnose directly what the issue was

In the thread “AI coding tools can reduce productivity”, replying to this comment

Helped: Annotating responses with sources and writing about problems to think through them.

Got in the way: Directly diagnosing specific GPU crash issues in the codebase.

… those; in some cases I've found SIGGRAPH papers that I wouldn't have stumbled upon otherwise, and it's nice to get them all in a response. ChatGPT (4o, if it's of any interest) is very knowledgeable about DirectX12 (which we switched to just this week) and I've gained tons of peripheral knowledge with regards to the things I've been battling with, but only one out of four times has it been able to actually diagnose directly what the issue was; three separate times it's been something it didn't really bring up or note in any meaningful regard. What helped was really just me writing about it, thinking about everything around it and for that it's been very helpful. …