Timeline for Exactly what does "document new learnings and solutions" mean in the description of the OverflowAI Visual Studio Code extension?
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| Sep 1, 2023 at 10:10 | history | edited | LW001 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Make it a bit more understandable
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| Aug 31, 2023 at 21:48 | history | edited | Heretic Monkey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 25, 2023 at 16:08 | history | edited | Gino Mempin |
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| Aug 25, 2023 at 15:50 | history | migrated | from meta.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Jul 31, 2023 at 7:51 | vote | accept | SPArcheon | ||
| Jul 29, 2023 at 6:58 | comment | added | Mast | "This extension pulls in validated content from both the public platform" The word 'validated' by itself here raises so many questions. | |
| Jul 28, 2023 at 17:57 | comment | added | ggorlen | @AndreasdetestsAIhype I haven't looked at the summaries closely because they're so trivial, but yeah, they probably have the usual hallucinations. | |
| Jul 28, 2023 at 17:37 | comment | added | Proud anti-zionist | @ggorlen Does it even correctly summarize it? I’d imagine that, especially for such a large amount of text, it mostly just generates something «random» that somewhat fits with parts of the project? | |
| Jul 27, 2023 at 19:15 | comment | added | ggorlen | @ggorlen when I said "harmless-ish", that's only if it's not dumped on SO as this answer indicates... Also this. So I'd better just call it it harmful given the track record of how people actually use GPTs. | |
| Jul 27, 2023 at 18:28 | answer | added | starballMod | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 27, 2023 at 16:31 | comment | added | ggorlen | @SPArcheon Correct, unless they run the GPT locally or on a company-dedicated private server or something, which is probably prohibitive at present. Also, this sort of feature is already available via CoPilot, I'm pretty sure, although I don't really use CoPilot either. | |
| Jul 27, 2023 at 16:21 | comment | added | SPArcheon | @ggorlen still meaning that the code has to be sent to a server, something most IT companies would probably not allow. | |
| Jul 27, 2023 at 16:17 | comment | added | ggorlen | I'm guessing they are using GPTs to summarize code, a common use case. Pass the code in with a prompt that says "summarize what this code does at a high level" or similar. It's sort of harmless-ish, but also fairly useless in my experience. Having worked on a large codebase that has been completely GPT summarized to create per-file docs, everything it's generated is obvious and non-insightful, so I basically ignore the output at this point. | |
| Jul 27, 2023 at 15:59 | comment | added | Peter Mortensen | Related (blog post): Announcing OverflowAI. And Stack Overflow for Visual Studio Code meets you where you work (Stack Overflow Labs) - "The Stack Overflow for Visual Studio Code is a paired programmer that pulls in validated content from Public and Private Stack Overflow to provide developers with a personalized summary of how to efficiently solve problems as well as insights to expand their knowledge." | |
| Jul 27, 2023 at 15:54 | history | asked | SPArcheon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |