This isn't an example of a coding problem, but just yesterday we had a very difficult technical problem come up that one of our partners, a very large IT company couldn't solve. None of our engineers knew how to solve it after trying for a few days. I would say I'm an expert in the industry and have been doing this over 20 years as a developer. I thought I knew the best way to solve it, but I wasn't sure exactly. I asked ChatGPT(GPT-4) and the answer it gave, although not perfect in every way, gave pretty much exactly the method we needed to solve the issue.
It's a bit scary because knowing this stuff is sort-of our secret sauce and GPT-4 was able to give an even better answer than I was able to give. It helped us out a lot. We are now taking the solution back to the customer and will be implementing it.
A few additional thoughts:
1. I knew exactly what type of question to ask it to get the right answer (i.e. if someone used a different prompt maybe they would get a different answer)
2. I knew immediately that the answer it gave was what we needed to implement. Some parts of the answer were not helpful or misleading and i was able to disregard those parts. Maybe someone else would have to take more time figuring it out.
I imagine future versions of GPT will be better at both points.
It's a bit scary because knowing this stuff is sort-of our secret sauce and GPT-4 was able to give an even better answer than I was able to give. It helped us out a lot. We are now taking the solution back to the customer and will be implementing it.
A few additional thoughts:
1. I knew exactly what type of question to ask it to get the right answer (i.e. if someone used a different prompt maybe they would get a different answer) 2. I knew immediately that the answer it gave was what we needed to implement. Some parts of the answer were not helpful or misleading and i was able to disregard those parts. Maybe someone else would have to take more time figuring it out.
I imagine future versions of GPT will be better at both points.