Campbell: Building complex software with ChatGPT requires iterative prompting
Duncan Campbell · AI for climate: a real world test · Jun 15, 2023 · at 15:44
Duncan Campbell reflects on using ChatGPT to generate quantitative code for battery storage dispatch optimization.
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“It's very hard to kind of, like, top-down build it, because there's a bunch of little errors everywhere. It's, like, hard to track what's going on. And I pretty quickly reverted to, like, bottom-up building it. Like, building one element, like, slowly working through it, getting to something that works, like, layering on the next thing, etc. And generally, that's been my, that's been, like, my general experience with ChatGPT. Like, you, it's very hard to just, like, assume it knows everything and can execute. You kind of have to, like, teach it what to do.”
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