advent-of-code-2022-in-rust VS assistant

Here are my issue notes so far: https://github.com/simonw/advent-of-code-2022-in-rust/issues...

> It doesn't have any thought or understanding of its own

Of course it doesn't. Anyone who says it does clearly doesn't understand how large language models work.

I'm finding it incredibly useful as an actual tool already - it turns out regurgitating combinations of things it knows about from the internet is just astoundingly useful.

I'm having it teach me Rust for example. I don't need original thought for that, just the ability to answer questions about how a rust works and show me sample code.

https://github.com/simonw/advent-of-code-2022-in-rust/issues...

I just got it to install git and clone (the non existent) repo https://github.com/openai/assistant, and am now browsing it’s own interpretation of a repo with a lot of python code, including directories like “training”, “output”, “parsing” and with files with content like this:

  import json