Generative AI, and ChatGPT in particular have been catnip to the tech press, the mainstream media, and the conversations of professionals in nearly every
Oof. I’ve tried it with a few Powershell things and it has recommended cmdlets that don’t exist, parameters that don’t exist, or the wrong usage of cmdlets.
It’s really limited to basic, junior level programming assistance, and even then it’s not 100% reliable. Any time I’ve tried asking it something more advanced it takes a lot of coaxing to get it to output reasonable code. But it’s helpful for boilerplating basic code sometimes.
I haven’t had many issues in 4. Occasionally it does what you’re saying and I just say “bro, that doesn’t exist” and it’s like “oh, my bad, here you go.” And gives me something that works.
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Oof. I’ve tried it with a few Powershell things and it has recommended cmdlets that don’t exist, parameters that don’t exist, or the wrong usage of cmdlets.
It’s really limited to basic, junior level programming assistance, and even then it’s not 100% reliable. Any time I’ve tried asking it something more advanced it takes a lot of coaxing to get it to output reasonable code. But it’s helpful for boilerplating basic code sometimes.
Have you tried 3.5 or 4?
I haven’t had many issues in 4. Occasionally it does what you’re saying and I just say “bro, that doesn’t exist” and it’s like “oh, my bad, here you go.” And gives me something that works.
I don’t remember what version. I just gave up trying
Well don’t expect it to just give magical results without learning prompt engineering and understanding the tools you’re working with.
Set-MailboxAddressBook doesn’t exist.
Set-ADAttribute doesn’t exist.
Asking for a simple command and expecting to receive something that actually exists is magical?