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I use it usually 10-20 times per day. 5-10 when I'm not working and like 20-30 when I'm working. It saves me a huge amount of time. It would already make sense at a wage of $20 but I earn more and so it is so much worth it. Even if I earn no wage (say a indie dev working on a game) it would still be useful because I save time which I can invest in other things (or play video games). I'd honestly pay $50-$100 for it as it saves me so much time and gives me so much value.

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Same, I'd pay way more than $20/month. It saves me so much time it's insane. For the past several months I'd been trying to write a tree sitter parser, and I had a really hard time with the docs for some reason. I sat down with ChatGPT and had a working V1 parser in like 3 hours. And it wasn't just feeding me instructions, I was actively conversing with it, going off into tangents when I didn't understand something, etc. It's just...magic. I love it.

I do feel morally conflicted about how humanity built the entire internet basically for free, and OpenAI is just regurgitating it back to us and getting rich off of our collective data. But the tool is so goddamn useful that I can't help myself regardless.

Why are reddit and forums full of people asking how to make chatgpt code work, and are always downvoted?

I think it's because AI is a crutch for junior engineers, and a rocket for senior engineers. It takes some degree of wisdom to know how to use it effectively, and the idea that you're going to lean entirely on it to make your program work is...misguided at best.

You seem like a power user .

Can you tell me why it can't process basic questions

https://chat.openai.com/c/19a2280c-1dc6-4f77-9313-c61ff4be4d...

What am I doing wrong here ?

That link doesn't open. (Unable to load conversation)

Since the link doesn't load I'm guessing here, but using gpt3.5 will definitely give a far worse experience than gpt4, especially for code.

What do you use it for?

I went for a walk and had a conversation about Rademacher complexity and VC-dimension of a classifier, then I asked it to quiz my understanding based on what we talked about. It's almost at the level on "Her" but you have a very knowledgeable tutor to ask who won't judge and is always available.

Thats a pretty neat use of chatgpt. My sister is prepping for USMLE. Wonder if she can do something like this too.

Until ChatGPT can store and reference all past conversations, I'd suggest asking it to generate flashcards for e.g. Anki. I've mainly used it when I want to understand or deepen my understanding of something pretty specific.

Same

What is a concrete situation where it is useful?

Comparing any two things so you can clarify the differences. I have found it works well for abstractions.

It is very useful in providing similar examples too. It's way better than a thesaurus.

I use it for several purposes. I most recently used it to find a recèpe for Limecreate for some Ukrainian builders and translate the recipe to Ukrainian.

I also use it to be build multi linguistic tasks lists in English, Polish and Ukrainian for Google sheets.

I also just used it to help create crop planting plan for a farm in Kenya which has just had massive floods, with a constraint that local produce reaches the highest value in December and January. The other constraint is that some of the crops have survived but not all. It is an interesting yield management experiment

My team was facing an issue with their microservice not recovering after a Kafka outage, which we only observed once and we couldn't reproduce, and didnt understand why not. Googling the symptoms did not yield anything. ChatGPT gave us a theory which happened to be correct, which was that the outage needed to be long enough for the kerberos ticket needed to expire. I estimate without this answer from chatgpt we would have wasted at least a day of our own or other people's time in investigation, but it was solved in minutes.

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