[HN Gopher] Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code ___________________________________________________________________ Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code Author : sean_lynch Score : 16 points Date : 2022-12-05 21:47 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (simonwillison.net) (TXT) w3m dump (simonwillison.net) | bsaul wrote: | The way it explains code, the error, and then gives the solution | to this particular error, i really don't understand how someone | could pretend we're not witnessing at least a first hint of true | intelligence. | drekipus wrote: | because you don't understand intelligence | simonw wrote: | I still think it's the world's most impressive party trick. | | It turns out if you build a model that can predict what word | comes next after a sequence of previous words, then train it on | TBs (PBs?) of data, you get something that really does appear | to be "intelligent". And which is absurdly useful, to boot! | | Until you trip it up, and the illusion shatters. | PartiallyTyped wrote: | It's more than that though, it also involves ranking the | results to account for noise in the sampling process. | kace91 wrote: | We haven't figured out what conscience is, so it's going to be | fun to deal with near perfect imitations of human behaviour, | and the societal consequences... | worldsayshi wrote: | In a way of seeing it, ChatGPT can be a great teacher because it | can both provide subject knowledge and force you to be very | critical about content you consume. | PartiallyTyped wrote: | Today I built the SSO flow for an application at work, and I | learned a lot significantly faster than I could by just | searching because it was guided. The generated code had issues, | but it felt a lot like rustlings [1]. At many points I felt | that my solution and approach was akin to doing gradient | descent, with ChatGPT giving me the direction and me doing | backtracking to avoid overshooting (glossing what it missed). | | [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings | sean_lynch wrote: | Have been thinking about exactly this workflow and of course | Simon is way out ahead. I recommend taking a look at Simon's | daily notes logs too, really fascinating back and forths. | simonw wrote: | Here are my issue notes so far: | https://github.com/simonw/advent-of-code-2022-in-rust/issues... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-12-05 23:00 UTC)