I guess it has just become another tool I use when it feels appropriate. Yes there was a steep learning curve understanding prompts and Iāve probably still loads to learn but for now it has its place.
Iāve tried it a few times but found it was good at sounding smart, but then when I tried to dig deeper around its reasoning etc. it failed for me there.
I think it can be good for generating some ideas though, so I guess thatās something.
Such tools can be rather useful for oneās testing, as long as one understands their limitations.
I wouldnāt say I use ChatGPT as a dedicated part of my testing toolbox but I am actively considering how I can use ChatGPT (or AI generally) to solve problems that I encounter or make my role easier.
As I work in a small team QA resource is limited, so we donāt regularly debrief exploratory charters due to time constraints. Though I was taught to always debrief as a junior, so I tried using ChatGPT to debrief my exploratory charter as an experiment (thinking it would be better than nothing), but the ChatGPT Slack integration we use couldnāt process the large input at first.
I definitely need to amend my approach and understand good prompt writing in order to effectively use it this way. Otherwise, I have gained useful suggestions on risks and test cases from it too, but it hasnāt provided enough value for me to use it out of habit.
I have found ChatGPT most useful when learning and, and to echo what others have mentioned, to ask questions. Also if something doesnāt make sense to me or if it uses terminology Iām not familiar with, I can ask ChatGPT to explain it to me in simpler terms.
All in all I think ChatGPT has its place as a tool, and has been really useful for understanding topics Iām not that familiar with, but I havenāt found it too useful in my role so far.
I continue to use ChatGPT regularly. I find it quite useful for generating code logic for basic automation.
For example, I can use bash but I only know the basics and I often forget the details about the syntax. So, I often ask ChatGPT to generate code snippets that I just read carefully and test to make sure it does what it is supposed to, then use the code in my automation.
I tested it a couple of times on tasks where there was essentially a ready-made solution available on Google and it was usually able to get those right. I suspect most of the āmagic intelligenceā people attribute to it is simply its ability to remix stuff from the internet. I think a lot of people who use it heavily could just as easily be using google to perform the same task.
I cant aee that this is a revolutionary new technology. The most revolutionary thing about it its ability to fool the humans interacting with it.
Iād like to poke a bit at your reasoning, hope you donāt mind .
I think that when Google came out, many people claimed that you could achieve the same thing by reading books and instruction manuals.
Of course, I donāt that tools like ChatGPT will solve everything. Itās just another tool that does its job really well in certain scenarios.
I have had numerous successes with it in cases where googling and reading documentation took too much time or maybe the feature was not discussed as widely online, so it was hard to find information on it. I asked about some command line usage and it just spat out the right syntax. In some cases it works, in some it doesnāt, but then you can always just revert to the previous ways like googling or analyzing the documentation.
I think these kind of tools will become widespread everywhere. I had numerous times where I had to find something in on our internal wiki, but I couldnāt find it easily using the built in search. And I had a feeling that something like ChatGPT would have had a better chance of finding that quickly, because I feel it is like an enhanced āCtrl-Fā. You wouldnāt need to try to remember the exact name of the command or the wiki page, you could just use the enhanced āAI: Ctrl-Fā to ask something like this: āfind me the command on the wiki to schedule a reboot of a machine using a scriptā.
So I mostly use it for writing texts, introductions and to come up with fun ideas for events.
Sometimes to write a formal email or something, so itās not full of smileys
Iām not using it code-wise, then again I didnāt have to google anything lately. (Been investing less into coding)