Asklemmy

I know many people my slightly younger than me are using chatgpt to breeze though university assignments. Apparently there's one website that uses gpt that even draws diagrams for you, so you don't have to make 500 UML and class diagrams that take forever to create.

I've found ChatGPT is good for small tasks that require me to code in languages I don't use often and don't know well. My prime examples are writing CMakeLists.txt files, and generating regex patterns.

Also, if I want to write a quick little bash script to do something, it's much better at remembering syntax and string handling tricks than me.

Trying to do our work with ChatGPT and then discussing the results has been our #1 topic of kitchen conversation all year.

My job actively encourages using AI to be more efficient and rewards curiosity/creative approaches. I'm in IT management.

We openly use it and abuse of it from top to bottom of the company and for me add Co-Pilot to that as well

Coworker of mine admitted to using this for writing treatment plans. Super unethical and unrepentant about it. Why? Treatment plans are individual, and contain PII. I used it for research a few times and it returned sources that are considered bunk at best and hated within the community for their history. So I just went back to my journal aggregation.

I use it as a search engine for the LLVM docs.

Works so much better than doxygen.

But it's no secret.

I am the boss and I've had to cajole a couple of my employees into using it.

Any employer that thinks using ChatGPT carefully and judiciously is a bad thing is mistaken. When it works it's a great productivity boost, but you have to know when to kick it to the curb when it starts hallucinating.

Not using chatgpt at all because it's queue is always full.

As a backend developer I use it to explain some SQL, dev processes that I should know but unsure on, or best practices for X.

SQL is my weakest link.

I use it at work but gladly tell the boss... It's only pluses if we can do more trivial work faster. More time to relax. They don't watch what I do during the day. The boss relaxes also. All good.

I use it

My boss likes it too. Of course we dont trust it m, but it can do certain things easier and faster than a human can

Im using the shit out of gpt-4 for coding and it works. And no never told anyone cause nobody asks.

English is not my first language. I use it to fix grammar and rephrase sentences for making communication easy.

The platform/language that I use doesn't supported by chat GPT or Bard. So I write my own code.

I use it to speed up writing scripts on occasion, while attempting to abstract out any possibly confidential data.

I'm still fairly sure it's not allowed, however. But considering it would be easy to trace API calls and I haven't been approached yet, I'm assuming no one really cares.

Aside from asking it coding questions (which are generally a helpful pointer in the right direction), i also ask it alot of questions like “Turn these values into an array” or something similar when i have to make an array of values (or anything else that’s repetitive) and am too lazy to do it myself. Just a slight speedup in work.

As a coder, we have had discussions about using it at work. Everyone's fine with it for generation of test data, or for generating initial code skeletons but it still requires us to review every line. It saves a bit of time but that's all.

I've run emails through it to check tone since I'm hilariously bad at reading tone through text, but I'm pretty limited in how I can make use of that. There's info I deal with that is sensitive and/or proprietary that I can't paste into just any text box without potential severe repercussions.

My boss pays for it! I don't use it that much, but it's pretty useful from time to time instead of going through a bunch of unrelated Google results.

I dont see any reason to not use it to (keyword) help with your work. I think it would be wise to not use its responses verbatim, as well as to fact-check anything that it gives you. Additionally, turn off chat history and do not enter any details about yourself, or your employer, into the prompts. Keep things generic whenever you can.