Comment by leptons
4 days ago
It is weird that AI is solving hard problems for you. I can't get it to do the most basic things consistently, most of the time it's just pure garbage. I'd never pay for "AI" because it wastes more of my time than it saves. But I've never had a problem wrapping my head around a problem, I solve problems.
I'm curious what kind of problem your "brain cant wrap around", but the AI could.
One of the most common use cases is that I can't figure out why my SQL statement is erroring or doesn't work the way it should. I throw it into ChatGPT and it usually solves it instantly.
Is that a "hard problem" though? Really?
Yes. To me, it is. Sometimes queries I give it are 100-200 lines long. Sure, I can solve it eventually but getting an "instant" answer that is usually correct? Absolutely priceless.
It's pretty common for me to spend a day being stuck on a gnarly problem in the past. Most developers have. Now I'd say that's extremely rare. Either an LLM will solve it outright quickly or I get enough clues from an LLM to solve it efficiently.
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I work with some very complex queries (that I didn't write), and yeah, AI is an absolute lifesaver, especially in troubleshooting situations. What used to take me hours now takes me minutes.
In my case, Learning new stuff is one place I see AI playing major role. Especially the academic research which is hard to start if you are newbie but with AI I can start my research, read more papers with better clarity.
Which model are you using?
Sounds like you're not capable of using AI correctly, user error.
Sorry, I'm not taking a comment like this from a 2-hour old account seriously. You don't know me at all.
"It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong!"
Sigh.