I wrestled over a problem with Bing for 4 hours. Having it solve issues in my code block by block, not providing it enough information about their relationships, having it hallucinate variables, use different libraries, or include optimizations that broke other parts of the code...
The problem I was trying to solve was multi-step and complicated. Eventually, I got tired, pulled up a text window, and wrote 3 paragraphs of text explaining exactly what the structure of my data was, what I wanted it to do, and what considerations to look out for. Partly just as a rubberduck exercise.
You know the ending. I copied this massive block of text into Bing, and it wrote over 200 lines, hitting its character limit twice, and solving my problem instantaneously. With zero errors.
Apr 16, 2023 · 2:31 PM UTC