A friend of mine upgraded a Wordpress installation, and it started throwing errors. He couldn’t figure it out, so he handed the error message to “his friend” GPT-4, which told him how to fix the PHP code to stop it from breaking. The world has shifted and it’s not going back.

Mar 26, 2023 · 12:31 PM UTC

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I asked the Google version to write a C program to delete the first of any string of newlines in a text file, to make it easy to import into Word. Shot full of errors, even after I fixed it so it would compile.
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I understand if you use a random number generator to generate C code it will have even more errors.
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So now we use a language model trained on StackExchange instead of visiting StackExchange directly.
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Stack exchange is not capable of reasoning in real time and interactively helping you.
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Replying to @perrymetzger
He should have probably upgraded to PHP 7.4 or 8. :p
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I did the same with a django installation the other day. I checked stackoverflow first but there were no answers for my specific problem, chatgpt somehow knew it though and the solution worked on first try. Just mindblown.
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Just checking, was it 4 or 3.5?
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We know this (anyone with tech experience, history, etc). Now if schools (K12+) would figure this out quickly.... (Not trying to attack, just my personal observations as well)
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It’s seems not to be a hype as it was with blockchain, isn’t it?
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I've done this many times via Google + Stack Exchange. But I'm guessing ChatGPT won't be judgmental or condescending, which, in itself is a 10X improvement over status quo for non-geeks (like me). gtm360.com/blog/2022/12/07/e…
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