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Comment by joshcsimmons

4 days ago

Worth noting that ChatGPT et al. Are equally useless for debugging Nix. Frustrating that it’s so far behind. Error messages are often cryptic and misleading.

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ChocolateGod  3 days ago

Yep, I thought ChatGPT was trained on Github but it's generated precisely 0 correct .nix files for me to date.

  • pasc1878  3 days ago

    I suspect Sturgeons law is at work here. "90% of everything is crap"

    I can believe that especially with nix - there isn't a defined way to do things. Most flakes out there will be done by newcomers learning and flakes is relative new e.g. 2020. The documentation of nix is bad.

    SO ChatGPT3 had very little good stuff to learn from and later won't have much better.

    • ChocolateGod  3 days ago

      A lot of the documentation includes code snippets but with no detail or context on where those snippets should be, so ChatGPT often puts things in the wrong place.