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Why You Shouldn’t Rely on GPT to Write Code

A lot of people have tried out ChatGPT and other LLMs for code their code writing abilities. My theory was that the LLMs would be really good at writing code to do things they’ve seen before, but not so good at things that were completely new. I started my experiments by asking ChatGPT to write me a function in python to geolocate a phone number. ChatGPT 3.5 did a relatively poor job of this, so I tried again using the playground and gpt-3.5-turbo. This time it was more successful.

That’s not bad. I like that it used the phonenumbers library rather than calling some external service.

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So You Want to Write a Book…

Well, we did it.  I finally finished the book that I had been working on with my co-author for the last two years.  I thought I’d write a short post on my experiences writing a technical book and getting it published.  I know many people think about writing books, and I’d like to share my experiences so that others might learn from lessons that I learned the hard way.  Overall, it was an absolutely amazing experience and I have a feeling that the adventure is only beginning….

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