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I primarily use gptel configured in Emacs right now, so I’ve found myself with a chat buffer always open.

https://github.com/karthink/gptel

In the last couple of weeks I’ve found it really useful chatting through ideas about a parser combinator library I’ve been working on. It also really helped me understand some of the finer points of monad lore. I genuinely don’t mind when it gets things slightly wrong first time, I’ve found the interactive process much more productive and educational than finding half a solution on StackOverflow and then being on my own.

I use it several times a week to extract structured data from chaos. It’s truly excellent at taking a specified template (CSV, JSON or XML) and fleshing it out. Sometimes I do this for test data entirely generatively.

This isn’t a work thing I guess but it’s generated what I think are extremely high quality D&D campaigns to play with my kids who have just started out. Things like that really help increase the amount of quality time you have as a family when you’re busy.

I’ve also tried many things that have failed. I often want help with cryptic crossword clues, sometimes even after giving up and getting the answer I don’t quite understand the construction. But neither does GPT. I have tried to use it to structure parts of my classical history reading but I’ve found it no better than Wikipedia in general and its utter refusal to have opinions about anything is slightly maddening.



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