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I think it should be called GOTTEN in honor of Chris.
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What would happen if you pasted ChatGPT's own code into it? 
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Actually, a complier is complete when it finally compiles itself. Before that a "helper" language is used. I think for Rust, C++ has been used until it was able to compile itself.
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jschell wrote: Makes me wonder what would happen if you attempted to paste a million line application into ChatGPT.
It'd pass it off as it's own work and give it to the next homework question asker. 
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jschell wrote: Makes me wonder what would happen if you attempted to paste a million line application into ChatGPT.
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
Caveat Emptor.
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So Improve means "condense it down" or "add back a line deliberately commented out".
I feel like all this "pass it through GPT" is leading everyone in circles. It's absolutely doing a fantastic job of taking text (prose, code, whatever) and producing a version that best matches its training data and bias. It spits out great looking text and generates code that is either the most commonly found code for this text prompt, or the code it was trained to produce. This will just get better and better.
But it is still about "most likely". Not "actually correct" and so we generate this great looking code and then spend all this time running around debugging and correcting.
Definitely good to start from something that's well structured and fix that, but let's put this in perspective. (and saying that, the fact it can even do this is mind blowing at a conceptual level, but disarmingly trivial at the mathematical level if you're OK with thinking trillion-parameter simultaneous equations are trivial. All in all a proper mind-bend).
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Chris Maunder
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I'd agree - but I don't think our jobs / whole profession is at risk yet.
It is likely affecting this site though: QA is well down on student question numbers, and that's probably them plagiarising ChatGPT code ...
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OriginalGriff wrote: plagiarising ChatGPT code
but is it really plagiarizing? I don't think so. Unless we are now saying that ChatGPT is a sentient being.
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My definition of plagiarism is pretty simple: if you didn't write it, it's not original to you, and that's plagiarism unless you provide adequate references to the original source.
Which you definitely don't do when you are too lazy to do your own homework. 
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Quote: unless you provide adequate references to the original source.
And the original source of something that ChatGPT generates is what? It is not ChatGPT...
I hope we can agree that ChatGPT is not capable of any kind of thinking, and I imagine that in the near future we will have a number of similar solutions that generate contents that will be published on the net somewhere. My guess is that these solutions will start to learn from each other, and there will probably be some really weird results.
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I didn't write the designer code that Visual Studio generates behind my C# forms. But does anyone doubt that I own the copyright to it?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: But does anyone doubt that I own the copyright to it?
Well, Microsoft might. I'd read that license very carefully...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Actually could even be worse than that.
Someone might claim that because it came from VS that anyone (the competitors) should be able to use it. Which might even be supported by the license.
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Until it can do a cost-benefit analysis, it may well write great code but may still be solving the wrong problem.
I'm curious if it is of the "put as much as you can into one SQL statement" school of thought.
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Ooohhhh the SQL I've been writing lately...
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I've been using ChatGPT to help me learn how to write Chrome extensions. Just ask it to do what I want, then take the code and work out what it does. Useful way of learning. This could be used to learn anything, working out where it is wrong is part of the learning.
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It couldn't tell me how to order regiments in a brigade if they were of different sizes. In real life, they are not all 10 companies of 100 each; all the time. Especially during war.
It will tell me everything else I already know.
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Chris Maunder wrote: But it is still about "most likely". Not "actually correct" and so we generate this great looking code and then spend all this time running around debugging and correcting.
I think that most people that know how to debug properly are not going to get ChatGPT code for production.
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You'd think, right?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Nelek wrote: most people that know how to debug properly
There's the rub...
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MAJIKTHISE: ... we want this machine off, and we want it off now.
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Mystic worried about old newsreel company, but is supportive and understanding (11)
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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