Whatever you might want to say about ChatGPT … it is still magic !
So I had this Powershell script, written by someone else, which supposedly copied some .proto files and modified them for a slightly different situation.
Except it didn’t… Get-Content : Could not find a part of the path !
Here’s the script:
Presumably at some point in time it worked. But not on my machine, not anymore, not today. Some environment setting perhaps, or a change made by Microsoft to Powershell … or something. Who cares!
And well that “or something” is kind of the point.
The error I got was this:
Clearly this is nonsense, cos the path is definitely there, and files are there inside the folder, and etcetera. And I googled it and found a lot of different suggestions about people with similar problems and so on, but nothing that would just make the problem go away. I really don’t need to be dealing with this problem. I don’t care why the script doesn’t work. I don’t want to get any better at writing Powershell scripts, I don’t want my life to be about this at all in any way, shape or form.
So then I asked ChatGPT and it gave me the following:
Like I say, at some point in the recent past this script presumably worked. I have no reason to believe that it didn’t. But ChatGPT managed to find 4 problems with it ! And then provided me with a replacement ! …
And, profanities falling from my mouth, the replacement just worked, 100%, without any modification being required. It did the job I needed it to do. Effortlessly I was back to working on the thing I actually wanted to work on.
Like I say. Magic.
Addendum
Here’s another example of AI magic. It boggles my mind that ChatGPT is able to do this just with meaning-vectors.
