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[โ€“] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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I have yet to see people using chatbots for anything actually & everyday useful. You can search anything with a "normal" search engine, phrase your searches as questions (or "prompts"), and get better answers that aren't smarmy.

Also think of the orders of magnitude more energy ai sucks, compared to web search.

[โ€“] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Okay, challenge accepted.

I use it to troubleshoot my own code when I'm dealing with something obscure and I'm at my wits end. There's a good chance it will also spit out complete nonsense like calling functions with parameters that don't exist etc., but it can also sometimes make halfway decent suggestions that you just won't find on a modern search engine in any reasonable amount of time or that I would have never guessed to even look for due to assumptions made in the docs of a library or some such.

It's also helpful to explain complex concepts by creating examples you want, for instance I was studying basic buffer overflows and wanted to see how I should expect a stack to look like in GDB's examine memory view for a correct ROPchain to accomplish what I was trying to do, something no tutorial ever bothered to do, and gippity generated it correctly same as I had it at the time, and even suggested something that in the end made it actually work correctly (it was putting a ret gadget to get rid of any garbage in the stack frame directly after the overflow).

It was also much much faster than watching some greedy time vampire fuck spout off on YouTube in between the sponsorblock skipping his reminders to subscribe and whatnot.

Maybe not an everyday thing, but it's basically an everyday thing for me, so I tend to use it everyday. Being a l33t haxx0r IT analyst schmuck often means I have to both be a generalist and a specialist in every tiny little thing across IT, while studying it there's nothing better than a machine that's able to decompress knowledge from it's dataset quickly in the shape that is most well suited to my brain rather than have to filter so much useless info and outright misinformation from random medium articles and stack overflow posts. Gippity could be wrong too of course, but it's just way less to parse, and the odds are definitely in its favour.