this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2024
47 points (91.2% liked)

Technology

34912 readers
174 users here now

This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.


Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ads. All such posts otherwise are subject to removal.


Rules:

1: All Lemmy rules apply

2: Do not post low effort posts

3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff

4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.

5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)

6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist

7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use bing copilot constantly at work. Anytime I need to search for anything I use it.

Saves so much time and gives way more tailored answers than reading blogs/docs.

I can get up and running in a new framework or language instantly now.

It's also good at finding stuff in less popular languages. For instance searching for vb6 stuff (I know, it sucks haha) almost always gets you VB.net solutions. But bing AI is spot on with it.

It's totally changed how I work. I can go on a project in a language / framework I've never used and be productive within the hour.

[–] grilledcheesecowboy@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This reads like a poor attempt a guerrilla marketing.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So does everything that's positive about a product.

[–] otl@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I suppose there’s positive, then there’s “totally changed how I work”. It’s a big call. Maybe a real-world example would make it sound more believable: “before ChatGPT, I would have to sift through stacks of outdated VB6 documentation on $task. This took up most of the day. Yesterday I used a LLM to get a basic implementation of $task then I tidied it up and installed it within an hour.”

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

That sounds way more like an ad to me hehe

The thing is it's true. Before the internet grew and search engines got big you had a massive manual on your desk for whatever you were using. At my first job I had a yearly budget for buying technical books. That or you'd install a massive help library like MSDN.

Imo this is as big a change as moving from those to blogs and online docs.