• yogurtwrong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    60·
    10 months ago

    ChatGPT keeps mixing up software versions which is understandable considering the similarities between versions and the way gen AI works

    I asked for help on GTK 4 once and responses were a mix of GTK 4 and 3 code. Some of them even contained function names which didn’t exist in any version of GTK

    • Ibaudia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      And when you point that out to the AI, those code snippets get replaced with even more spaghetti that is maybe 1% closer to actually working, at best. Been there!

    • whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      I’ve asked for help finding API endpoints that do what I want because I’m feeling too lazy to pour over docs and it’ll just invent endpoints that don’t exist

      • B0rax@feddit.orgEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        Yep, because they sound plausible.

    • Omniraptor@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Maybe we could do better with smaller ais that are fine tuned (or RAG idk I’m not a programmer) on a specific code base + documentation + topical forum