ChatGPT can help with Emacs

That's broken. It deletes the line before saving it, so it ends up saving an empty line.

How dare you. It looks so cool. And it's made available for free by amazing billionaire visionaries. As a GNU Emacs user you should be grateful the rich have control of such awesome and dependable technology.

Perhaps this is a sign. We should delete whatever lines we have in our GNU Emacs and move to VSCode, to better align with our rich overlords' grand vision. The AI was right all along.

You mean we should copy them to the clipboard. The AI will know what to do. Vscode also integrates well with copilot. Thiele + Gates = win for the nonbillionaires 😍

I mean I guess it followed my instructions to a tee.

Where do you generate this?

https://chat.openai.com/chat - I believe this may be the biggest leap in technology I've ever seen

AI can be both clever and stupid simultaneously.

That's got to be the most verbose (and incorrect) way to do it possible when kill-line already does that.

Yesterday I asked it how to reverse lines in Emacs Lisp and it told me correctly about the built in function `reverse-region` which I had no idea it existed. It often tells me things that are plausible, but incorrect. However I can often get the answers faster than online search engines because it's NLP understands better what I want. Another simple example: "Is there a way to flatten the type `Some(Ok(x))` in Rust?"

On the surface it looks impressive, but 3 / 4 things I asked were bad info (but related... which in itself is impressive)

but i was told by derek, mba on linkedin that chatgpt was going to take my job and bang my wife.

Okay that's pretty crazy. I had the idea earlier this morning to create a function to open an orgmode file in a sidebar window with a keyboard shortcut to toggle it. Being quite unfamiliar with elisp, I asked ChatGPT to create the function for me and here is the result: (defun my-toggle-sidebar-and-narrow (file sidebar-name heading) (interactive "FFile to open in sidebar: \nBName of the sidebar buffer: \nMHeading to narrow to: ") (let ((sidebar-window (get-buffer-window sidebar-name))) (if (not sidebar-window) ; Check if sidebar-window is non-nil (let ((buffer (find-file-noselect file))) (with-current-buffer buffer (rename-buffer sidebar-name)) ; Give the buffer a name (display-buffer-in-side-window buffer '((side . left) (window-width . 80))) ; Set the sidebar width to 80 characters (select-window (get-buffer-window sidebar-name)) ; Put the focus on the sidebar window (let ((heading-obj (org-find-exact-headline-in-buffer heading))) ; Find the specified heading (org-narrow-to-subtree heading-obj))) ; Narrow to the specified heading (delete-window sidebar-window) ; Close the window (kill-buffer sidebar-name)))) ; Delete the buffer (global-set-key (kbd "C-c t") 'my-toggle-sidebar-and-narrow) He didn't give me this function from the start, I had to guide him little by little (about ten messages, telling him for example that the kill-buffer-and-window function doesn't take any argument and therefore can't be used ; or for example to create a 'sidebar-name' and 'heading' parameter). But in the end it works! Edit : there was a bug with the org-narrow-to-subtree, here is the corrected version after about twenty minutes of discussions+tests : (defun my-toggle-sidebar (file sidebar-name heading) (interactive "ffile to open in sidebar: \nbname of the sidebar buffer: ") (let ((sidebar-window (get-buffer-window sidebar-name))) (if (not sidebar-window) ; check if sidebar-window is non-nil (let ((buffer (find-file-noselect file))) (with-current-buffer buffer (rename-buffer sidebar-name)) ; give the buffer a nam ; turn off save-place-mode (display-buffer-in-side-window buffer '((side . left) (window-width . 80))) ; set the sidebar width to 80 characters (select-window (get-buffer-window sidebar-name)) (let ((marker (org-find-exact-headline-in-buffer heading))) ; find the specified heading (goto-char marker) ; move the cursor to the position of the marker (let ((heading-obj (org-element-at-point))) ; convert the org element at the cursor position into an org element (org-narrow-to-subtree heading-obj)))) ; narrow to the specified heading (delete-window sidebar-window) ; close the window (kill-buffer sidebar-name)))) ; delete the buffer this time, the function seems to work perfectly with : (defun toggle-dashboard () "toggle dashboard" (interactive) (my-toggle-sidebar "/nas/documents/notes/dashboard.org" "dashboard-sidebar" "dashboard")

We are safe, chatgpt proposes braincead code that not only doesn’t work, it doesn’t even follow best practices.

A half-truth.

Which apparently users have then been posting to Stack Overflow as Answers... https://stackoverflow.com/help/gpt-policy

Dude calls himself chatgpt, what a madlad

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Wife-banging confirmed.

Can we not, though? I really don't want half-coherent AI sludge in my life.

ChatGPT is unreliable and known to hallucinate, so be sure you thoroughly test anything it gives you--and even if it gives you a working result, it may not be at all efficient (as here). (The same goes for other areas--it will happily produce authoritative-sounding but false claims, invent nonexistent citations, etc. ... it's terrible at math and inconsistent. Don't be fooled by the fact that it often gets the right result.)

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It's really confidently wrong a lot of the time.