r/ChatGPT

they talk like we are still in 2024 "ai makes a lot of bugs" "you can't code good software with ai"

"ai code is unmaintainable" .

ignoring windows ,linux kernel and distros like debian,chromium.

and projects that would have never been possible without ai like anyps5 or artcraft adobe clones ,are being activtly made using ai now.

so why do people or redditors specifically deny ai code is very good now? they seem to think ai will delete all your data if you give it control on your pc. even tho that doesn't happen since literal months ago.

I'm currently getting my degree in engineering, and I'm trying not to rely on AI as much as possible. But when I see my classmates around me blatantly cheating on their assignments and exams with it, I can only fear what is to come 10 to 20 years from now. Why am I even putting in all this effort when GPT can do everything better than I can? What purpose do I serve, and to what end? By the time I graduate three years from now, it will be even more advanced. Why would anyone hire me when I will not be able to hold a candle to this technology? I'm excited for the advancements that will come with this revolution, but I feel afraid, and I'm not really sure what to do. I have an exam tomorrow, and I have zero motivation to study for it since AI knows it all better than I do, so what's the point? I feel as though only the brightest minds will be able to contribute in any way as time goes on. As an average Joe, I feel hopeless.

I have ADHD, depression, and anxiety. It's been very hard for me to budget properly without getting overwhelmed. Usually, I try, and do "okay", but not without a lot of stress and feeling like I'm never going to catch up. It's been hard for me to keep track of tasks, keep track of if I'm spending too much on one thing, etc.

I have been successfully staying on a budget and built a savings account (properly), for the past 3 months because of how easy it has been with Chat. I just say "okay, here's my paycheck amount, here's my bills." I'm able to see my spending, and able to track so much easier.

I sometimes feel embarrassed that I use AI for this, and I'm afraid to tell friends given how many are "anti-AI." I used to share the sentiment, but this has genuinely been able to change my life for the better, and I'm starting to build healthier habits. Sorry - not sorry, but I'm so glad ChatGPT is a thing.

Guess this is more of a rant than anything else. But moreso wondering if anyone has had this same experience of AI helping with a genuine life task, and how you went about sharing about it with others and not getting the typical "'eye-rolls', can't you do it yourself?"

Just wanted to say how impressed I am with ChatGPT and how excited I am for the future of AI.

Until now, I've mostly used it for creative stuff, building fictional worlds, writing stories and generating artwork. As someone who's terrible at drawing and struggles to get the stories in my head onto paper, it's been amazing seeing my ideas come to life.

But today genuinely blew my mind.

I was having issues with a heavily modded game crashing. I explained the problem to ChatGPT, and it suggested possible causes and fixes. Some of the instructions involved messing with mod files and code, which I had absolutely no clue how to do.

So I told it I didn't understand, and it literally asked if I wanted it to fix the problem for me.

It switched to Work mode and asked for access to my PC. I was a little hesitant but thought screw it, let's see what happens.

About 17 minutes later, it told me what it had done and asked me to launch the game and test it.

And it fucking worked.

I know to some people here that's probably nothing special, but anyone who's spent hours troubleshooting a modded game knows how much of a nightmare it can be. Normally, I'd spend hours trying to find the broken mod, give up, or just start a new save.

Instead, AI fixed it for me in 17 minutes. I think it even went into one of the mods and changed something itself, which is insane to me.

I know AI gets a lot of hate, and obviously it's far from perfect, but the fact it can already do things like this is incredible. Imagine where we'll be in 10–20 years.

Although, thinking about it, we're probably heading towards either Terminator or Cyberpunk 2077. So we'll either become part machine or end up fighting the machines. My wager is Cyberpunk. I mean, we already rely way too much on AI, so the next logical step is making it part of us. I can definitely see it starting with medical advancements, like bionic limbs for amputees or brain implants helping people with paralysis. Then eventually we'll go from using technology to fix disabilities to using it to enhance ourselves. Before you know it, we're all walking around with cybernetic upgrades just like Cyberpunk 😂

Either way, good luck to all of us.

And yes, I'm saying AI will be the end of us because it fixed my broken game🤣

Hello everybody. You don’t know me and I don’t know you. I have been working to the absolute limit of my ability over this past week in pursuit of a golden mathematical goose - the Wolfram Rule 30 outstanding math prize (3 x $10,000). 

From the beginning this has been an exploration with Claude (Please no anti-AI talk - this post is me in my human words only) but over time I, with no prior knowledge, have come to know the problem intimately myself. I have worked it to the limit and beyond what has done before. I have discovered the Wolfram, Collatz and Mahler problems are intimately linked - and likely share the same solution. And I have built a website that explains everything I have done and how you can carry this torch onwards to a real proof.

This is not a trick, or an AI hallucination. Every claim I have made is a testable scientific statement. Every single step of every single discovery at every single moment in time is recorded in my git. I have frozen this project now because I can no longer take it any further. I simply don’t know enough to move the needle any further without outside help. So I am turning it over to you for the sake of the maths, forsake of the money, for the betterment of science and maths in general. Good luck, and God bless.

The git: https://github.com/ghywel/placego

My coworkers and I were talking about using AI at work for everything from coding to product roadmaps. One software engineer said: “it’s like driving 150 MPH all the time”.

Yep, that pretty much sums it up. I feel like I live between running an AI tool and managing the inputs/outputs to/from it. It’s just crazy how it felt like it was supposed to make everything easier, but it feels like everything has gotten way harder.

Anyone else feel this?