• Oliver Lowe@lemmy.sdf.org
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        6 months ago

        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Maybe a real-world example would make it sound more believable: “before ChatGPT, I would have to sift through stacks of outdated VB6 documentation on $task.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
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          6 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.