Have finally revisited this one as I've finally admitted that ChatGPT is actually a lot better at googling than me. Hopefully one of these will do until Github Copilot CLI leaves early access which I'm highly looking forward to!
Firstly, the first extension you featured has context menu options which you neglected to mention. Secondly, IMHO Stack Overflow is not very welcoming to beginner programmers. I have asked a couple of questions there which have been closed off abruptly and or marked down with minus values. Now when I have a question I use Chat GPT and get the response with out the condescending judgements or my question being ignored.
If you subbed to my newsletter I posted an article on this topic a few weeks ago, very much agree that there is an issue with how people are treated on SO. People get points for editing stuff, which doesn't help as people close things just to get more points. I didn't have SO when I learnt to code, back then you had to figure it out yourself, by research and reading the SDK docs mainly. The problem with just using ChatGPT is that the code is not always good and you will also not learn why certain approaches are better than others. As I never learnt to code using ChatGPT I cant say if its better or worse, but from my past I leart more by having to research and readg things rather than someone just giving me the answer
@@jondjones I don't use/rely Chat GPT to learn. I use Python documentation, TH-cam, W3schools and Google, which often sends me to SO links, which have led me in the right direction. My point, as someone who is a self taught hobbyist coder familiar with bash shell and python is that I do not find SO a welcoming environment as a starter. On the few occasions I have posted questions they have been met questions being closed straight away with little in the way of explanation or marked down as not having been sufficiently researched, though I will have spent a good deal of time on Google trying to get the information, or not meeting their standards. I an not a coder/programmer and do not work with programmers, so I have no one to ask questions of. So now when I do have something I cannot understand I go to Chat GPT as again, I get a response without judgement.
You are right about SO, it's a cesspit. I have used it for years without asking a question, because in reality many questions have already been asked. Some questions and answers are close to what I have wanted so a little analysis and voila I have a solution. As for ChatGPT I think our experience has been similar, I know what I want but now days I find it quicker to avoid SO and go to ChatGPT. The trick is describing exactly what I want it to do.
None of these are aware of your project. There must be a plugin which uses Pinecone or some semantic index to understand your project and help with more than a block of code at a time.
This extension is now disabled
Have finally revisited this one as I've finally admitted that ChatGPT is actually a lot better at googling than me.
Hopefully one of these will do until Github Copilot CLI leaves early access which I'm highly looking forward to!
Looks like they're all a pain with the whole access token thing so I think I'll wait for the CLI!
I agree I use it all the time now... 😂😂😂
I mainly use the oline chatgpt portal now after a month
Firstly, the first extension you featured has context menu options which you neglected to mention. Secondly, IMHO Stack Overflow is not very welcoming to beginner programmers. I have asked a couple of questions there which have been closed off abruptly and or marked down with minus values. Now when I have a question I use Chat GPT and get the response with out the condescending judgements or my question being ignored.
If you subbed to my newsletter I posted an article on this topic a few weeks ago, very much agree that there is an issue with how people are treated on SO. People get points for editing stuff, which doesn't help as people close things just to get more points. I didn't have SO when I learnt to code, back then you had to figure it out yourself, by research and reading the SDK docs mainly.
The problem with just using ChatGPT is that the code is not always good and you will also not learn why certain approaches are better than others.
As I never learnt to code using ChatGPT I cant say if its better or worse, but from my past I leart more by having to research and readg things rather than someone just giving me the answer
@@jondjones I don't use/rely Chat GPT to learn. I use Python documentation, TH-cam, W3schools and Google, which often sends me to SO links, which have led me in the right direction.
My point, as someone who is a self taught hobbyist coder familiar with bash shell and python is that I do not find SO a welcoming environment as a starter. On the few occasions I have posted questions they have been met questions being closed straight away with little in the way of explanation or marked down as not having been sufficiently researched, though I will have spent a good deal of time on Google trying to get the information, or not meeting their standards.
I an not a coder/programmer and do not work with programmers, so I have no one to ask questions of. So now when I do have something I cannot understand I go to Chat GPT as again, I get a response without judgement.
You are right about SO, it's a cesspit.
I have used it for years without asking a question, because in reality many questions have already been asked. Some questions and answers are close to what I have wanted so a little analysis and voila I have a solution.
As for ChatGPT I think our experience has been similar, I know what I want but now days I find it quicker to avoid SO and go to ChatGPT. The trick is describing exactly what I want it to do.
None of these are aware of your project. There must be a plugin which uses Pinecone or some semantic index to understand your project and help with more than a block of code at a time.
That is a great idea!
Very useful sharing~ The talking style is so interesting.