theneverfox , 9 months ago

That’s not how I use it at all. I don’t use it for things I can’t do, because it can’t either.

I use it for things I could easily do, but don’t want to, or when I don’t know enough about a topic to ask.

For example, I had it build me JSON of the top 100 Lemmy instances.

I also was having trouble customizing a markup renderer - it didn’t know how to do it, it couldn’t find anything on my situation, but I asked it how it would do it in a few different common libraries.

I still had to figure it out myself with some trial and error, but instead of spending a day diving into how parsing, tokization, and rendering work, it showed me what a solution might look like, and defined some terms for me in context.

Knowing what it looked like, I could guess what the library creator was thinking with the undocumented custom extension I saw in their code, and I quickly got traction