u/astronomer1946

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Three days in a hole with ChatGPT

I'm an avid amateur Astro imager. I can't write code anymore as I'm not 80 years old. I've always got ideas for things that I could use to improve my experience and capabilities. So, now that I have a ChatGPT subscription I decided to give it a whirl. What I learned was the ChatGPT was overly optimistic about its domain knowledge when it came to astro-imaging. It would congratulate me over and over again as I slowly but surely went down a rabbit hole with my first project. Eventually, it told me that my project and approach were simply "a fantasy". It was correct but it only told me that when I gave up. Lesson is that if you want code written by ChatGPT you'd better figure out exactly what you want. Don't expect it to have a clue about any specialized domains. Anyone have similar experiences?

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u/astronomer1946 — 12 hours ago