Rookie numbers! Let’s pump them up!
To match their tech bro hypers, the should be wrong at least 90% of the time.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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For me as a software developer the accuracy is more in the 95%+ range.
On one hand the built in copilot chat widget in Intellij basically replaces a lot my google queries.
On the other hand it is rather fucking good at executing some rewrites that is a fucking chore to do manually, but can easily be done by copilot.
Imagine you have a script that initializes your DB with some test data. You have an Insert into statement with lots of columns and rows so
Inser into (column1,....,column n) Values row1, Row 2 Row n
Addig a new column with test data for each row is a PITA, but copilot handles it without issue.
Similarly when writing unit tests you do a lot of edge case testing which is a bunch of almost same looking tests with maybe one variable changing, at most you write one of those tests, then copilot will auto generate the rest after you name the next unit test, pretty good at guessing what you want to do in that test, at least with my naming scheme.
So yeah, it's way overrated for many-many things, but for programming it's a pretty awesome productivity tool.
Yeah, it (in my case, ChatGPT) has been great for helping me along with functions I'm only passingly familiar with / trying to use in new ways.
One that I was really surprised with was that it gave me a surprisingly robust, sensible, and (seemingly) well tuned-to-my-case check list of things to inspect for a used car I intend to buy. I'm already mostly familiar with what I'm doing there, but it pointed to some things I might've overlooked / didn't know were points of concern for the specific vehicle I'm looking at.
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Keep doing what you do. Your company will pay me handsomely to throw out all your bullshit and write working code you can trust when you're done. If your company wants to have a product in the future that is.
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Color me surprised
Claude why did you make me an appointment with a gynecologist? I need an appointment with my neurologist, I’m a man and I have Parkinson’s.
Got it, changing your gender to female. Is there anything else I can assist you with?
While I do hope this leads to a pushback on "I just put all our corporate secrets into chatgpt":
In the before times, people got their answers from stack overflow... or fricking youtube. And those are also wrong VERY VERY VERY often. Which is one of the biggest problems. The illegally scraped training data is from humans and humans are stupid.
Hey I went there
Why would they be right beyond word sequence frecuencies?
I use it for very specific tasks and give as much information as possible. I usually have to give it more feedback to get to the desired goal. For instance I will ask it how to resolve an error message. I've even asked it for some short python code. I almost always get good feedback when doing that. Asking it about basic facts works too like science questions.
One thing I have had problems with is if the error is sort of an oddball it will give me suggestions that don't work with my OS/app version even though I gave it that info. Then I give it feedback and eventually it will loop back to its original suggestions, so it couldn't come up with an answer.
I've also found differences in chatgpt vs MS copilot with chatgpt usually being better results.
- this study was written with the assistance of an AI agent.