Posted by OmegaKV on
URL: https://mikraite.arkian.net/ChatGPT-tp3051.html

It is worth looking at ChatGPT. You have to make an account to use it, but other than that it is free.

I asked it to generate code using a somewhat obscure software library we use for work, and to my surprise it did it. All I had to do was say the library name and what I wanted it to do, which was to write an image processing driver that squares every pixel. It is kind of scary that it wrote everything correctly.

I gave it another task, which was to write a python interface to a serial to telnet device, and gave it the model of the specific device I wanted. This is a much easier task, for me at least. But it wrote the interface from the serial side instead of the telnet side, which is not very useful, and trivial to do. I tried to be more specific that I wanted it on the telnet side, but it didn't seem to get it.

Overall though, I found it pretty scary that technology has reached the point that it can do this.