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mallocPlusAI (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 weeks ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/programming_horror@programming.dev

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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 56 points 3 weeks ago (18 children)

From my experience with ChatGPT:

It will NEVER consistently give you only the value in the response. It will always eventually add in some introductory text like it’s talking to a human. No matter how many times I tried to get it to just give me back the answer alone, it never consistently did.
ChatGPT is terrible with numbers. It can’t count, do math, none of that. So asking it to do byte math is asking for a world of hurt.

If this isn’t joke code, that is scary.

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

For 1, that's why you say "Format your answer in this exact sentence: The number of bytes required (rounded up) is exactly # bytes., where # is the number of bytes." And then regex for that sentence. What could go wrong?

Also, it can do math somewhat consistently if you let it show its work, but I still wouldn't rely on it as a cog in code execution. It's not nearly reliable enough for that.

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