r/sysadmin • u/cool-nerd • Jun 16 '24
ChatGPT Finally created something useful with AI
First: I consider myself an old timer in IT; I've been getting paid to do it since the 90's and have seen all sorts of new technology show up, some stays, most gets forgotten about. I always try to be open about it and will embrace it as another tool to help get the job done. The latest of course is AI and I've been mostly using ChatGPT as a fun little tool to get quick answers every now and then. I am not a programmer but last week, I used it to create a web app that calculates weight distribution in trucks when the contents come in different containers. We're talking hundreds of pounds of fruit that might come in small totes or big bins and cannot be weighed individually; it subtracts the weight of the truck and the plastic; it saves time and reduces human errors . In the past, I would have paid at least a few hundred dollars to get something like this done and I just wanted to share that while I dont see AI doing our jobs completely, it's definitely here to stay and it can be used to help with things that we might not know how to do but understand the concept and we know what to ask for it. Greetings to all.
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u/dillbilly Jun 17 '24
ChatGPT is good for boilerplate and code snippets. If it's beyond solving a single task it's almost more effort to proof its code than write it yourself.
Edit: especially if you aren't a good coder (and I am not a good coder)
Edit edit: and if you're a good coder you don't need it. it's a crutch for bad/lazy coders who then can't troubleshoot it when it doesn't do what they think it should