ChatGPT was lobotomized for coding and GitHub Copilot is broken so I made my own_transcript.csv

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okay so you know how chat GPT has been,0.42,8.16
slightly let's say lobotomized lately it,4.74,5.76
seems to not really handle coding that,8.58,5.16
well and uh if you're like me I tried,10.5,5.46
GitHub co-pilot and I really don't like,13.74,5.52
it uh I applied for the GitHub co-pilot,15.96,5.94
chat and then like a few days later I,19.26,5.4
tried to go use it and it says oh well,21.9,4.619
the beta has expired or you know you've,24.66,3.06
been kicked out or whatever I was like,26.519,3.541
okay whatever so,27.72,4.26
um I realized that like all right I have,30.06,4.38
the power to fix this myself because,31.98,4.98
I've been shying away from doing my,34.44,4.799
coding experiments because chat GPT is,36.96,5.34
broken or lobotomized or whatever and,39.239,5.101
GitHub co-pilot and you know I know,42.3,3.06
there's lots of other tools there's,44.34,3.719
Amazon and blah blah but you know like I,45.36,4.32
can fix this I can I can do the thing,48.059,3.421
that I want to do and I can make a thing,49.68,4.859
that is specific so I came over to the,51.48,4.44
playground and I was like all right,54.539,4.621
let's try this so I um I just want to,55.92,4.5
show you real quick,59.16,3.6
uh you know I gave a really simple,60.42,3.479
prompt,62.76,2.88
system message you or python coding,63.899,2.76
assistant the user will give you,65.64,3.24
instructions to help write functions uh,66.659,4.021
you may ask for clarification if needed,68.88,3.419
but otherwise you should only output,70.68,3.54
python code and of course you can change,72.299,3.5
this to whatever language you want,74.22,4.079
adhere to pep 8 so that's the python,75.799,6.101
enhancement program uh version 8 which,78.299,5.341
is basically sets all the standards for,81.9,4.56
how to write python pythonically provide,83.64,4.74
explanations of the code only if the,86.46,3.96
user asks for them,88.38,4.2
um so you know how like chat GPT will be,90.42,4.44
super overly verbose,92.58,4.2
um and then I I gave it a copy of the,94.86,3.719
script that I was working on,96.78,3.12
um and so then I said write a function,98.579,2.881
that loads all files into a given folder,99.9,3.84
returns a list of uh list of lists and,101.46,3.6
groups of five include the full file,103.74,3.78
path and it just bam did it I was like,105.06,4.44
cool that's exactly what I wanted and I,107.52,4.139
was like wait that worked really well so,109.5,3.659
why don't I just make a chat bot that,111.659,3.681
does it so coding chatbot assistant,113.159,5.041
since chat GPT has been lobotomized and,115.34,5.139
GitHub co-pilot is broken,118.2,2.879
um,120.479,3.241
I got it set up here here's an example,121.079,6.061
of the output so for instance I was um,123.72,6.599
I'm working on uh you know my recent,127.14,4.98
projects have been chat Bots with,130.319,4.56
long-term memories and uh KB articles,132.12,4.74
and stuff so I was like okay I've got,134.879,3.841
this far just write the function for me,136.86,3.78
so I told it how I want to write the,138.72,3.84
function you know it's a KB article with,140.64,5.4
a yaml file so on and so forth now that,142.56,5.039
being said I want to show you a really,146.04,4.199
cool cool bit so this is the output you,147.599,5.22
can see it's pretty familiar so it gives,150.239,5.521
you like okay uh you know you need to,152.819,5.581
import this let's do this here's a,155.76,4.26
couple functions and it thought through,158.4,4.5
it and gave it a very very very specific,160.02,4.439
output,162.9,3.72
um I haven't tested this code yet but,164.459,4.14
like this is very much the behavior that,166.62,4.08
I want to see so now let me explain to,168.599,4.801
you how the chat bot works so we'll go,170.7,5.94
through the code uh real quick it's,173.4,5.76
pretty straightforward it's 105 lines of,176.64,4.14
code so like not not the most,179.16,3.06
complicated thing and actually some of,180.78,3.26
this is Superfluous,182.22,4.019
I actually think that I don't use the,184.04,4.839
yaml functions anywhere yeah so I could,186.239,3.901
probably delete that and make it even,188.879,4.621
shorter all right so ignore those helper,190.14,5.28
functions here's the uh here's the,193.5,6.0
called a GPT super simple you just call,195.42,6.66
it you get the text response and then,199.5,4.86
what I started doing is I just passed,202.08,5.4
back the token count so that I can,204.36,5.94
manage the conversation internally but,207.48,4.8
pretty much this whole thing here is,210.3,4.68
just if there's an error it will give,212.28,5.28
you some output so for instance if the,214.98,5.28
content context length is too long it'll,217.56,4.259
trim the conversation and try again,220.26,4.5
it'll let you know what happened if,221.819,6.06
another error happened it'll put it'll,224.76,5.28
output that the whole thing sometimes,227.879,3.481
the you know it's not available or,230.04,3.24
whatever open AI has gotten a lot better,231.36,4.14
but sometimes you'll have uh you know,233.28,4.319
network errors and other stuff and what,235.5,4.2
this does is it uses exponential back,237.599,3.0
off,239.7,4.14
so every time it retries it doubles the,240.599,5.341
amount of time that it'll wait,243.84,3.539
um to try again and it'll it'll give you,245.94,3.96
debug output the whole time uh and then,247.379,4.08
I've got this function so this is a,249.9,4.259
multi-line input function uh which it,251.459,4.2
will switch into this mode if you want,254.159,3.721
to update a scratch Pad so in this case,255.659,5.221
uh the scratch pad is just a plain text,257.88,5.58
file that it uses to load into the,260.88,4.56
system message so I've got that system,263.46,3.72
message that I showed you and then a,265.44,3.479
description of the below code scratch,267.18,4.26
Pad may be provided by the user blah,268.919,5.041
blah and so then it I wrap it in the,271.44,4.92
comment so that way knows like hey this,273.96,4.26
is Python and then it'll copy paste the,276.36,4.2
you know your code into it from the,278.22,5.36
scratch pad and so what you can do is,280.56,5.94
first it'll take you know input from the,283.58,6.0
user and then if you type in scratch pad,286.5,5.58
it will give you a chance to update the,289.58,4.839
scratch Pad which is you can put,292.08,3.899
anything in you can put in code you can,294.419,4.441
put in comments these whatever you can,295.979,5.461
put in a file system description,298.86,4.08
whatever you want,301.44,4.259
uh but the point is is that it will use,302.94,5.039
this function so that it will continue,305.699,7.5
to accept uh new lines of input without,307.979,7.801
um without breaking uh and so then when,313.199,4.861
if you type end at the very end then it,315.78,4.919
says okay cool save exit,318.06,6.359
um I strip that out of of the uh end,320.699,5.28
um and so on and so forth so there you,324.419,6.421
go uh let's see it should be about it,325.979,7.081
um oh and then if you accidentally hit,330.84,3.78
um enter twice because you know that can,333.06,2.88
happen,334.62,3.72
um it'll just go like it says you know,335.94,5.039
enter um,338.34,4.74
whoops ah crap I accidentally typed,340.979,4.261
something so that's going to break it,343.08,4.619
um yeah it was very confused,345.24,4.799
um yep,347.699,3.72
okay,350.039,3.181
um let's see so then the other thing,351.419,3.601
that I do is I accumulate all the,353.22,5.52
messages the uh the user input and the,355.02,7.14
chat bot response in a list called all,358.74,6.239
messages and I keep that separate from,362.16,4.86
the conversation object that I passed to,364.979,3.78
chat GPT,367.02,4.019
did I pass to the API and the reason is,368.759,5.761
because I actually just had a um had a a,371.039,6.961
a patreon uh supporter give me this,374.52,5.16
really powerful tip which is that if you,378.0,3.96
put the system message at the end rather,379.68,4.139
than at the beginning it is much more,381.96,3.72
likely to continue to adhere to the,383.819,3.841
instructions that you gave it rather,385.68,3.66
than drift,387.66,3.84
um so apparently this I haven't I,389.34,3.6
haven't spent too much time testing it,391.5,3.3
but you know how sometimes like chat,392.94,3.78
gpt's Behavior will change over time,394.8,3.899
especially as the conversation gets,396.72,4.02
longer it'll continue to kind of modify,398.699,3.541
Its Behavior and it'll usually kind of,400.74,3.959
default back to its default Behavior if,402.24,4.019
you put the system message at the very,404.699,4.921
end so what I do is I I say you know,406.259,6.541
conversation is an empty list I add all,409.62,5.1
messages and then I append the system,412.8,4.38
message at the very end and then I get,414.72,3.78
the response,417.18,3.48
and so then once I get the response it,418.5,4.979
passes back the tokens if it's uh if the,420.66,4.8
token count is over 7 500 because we've,423.479,4.021
got a limit of 8 000. I just remember,425.46,4.92
the I remember I removed the oldest,427.5,3.78
message,430.38,2.819
um so pop zero,431.28,4.44
um and then I append the assistant,433.199,5.401
response to all messages so remember all,435.72,5.16
messages is kept separate,438.6,3.96
um so that I can just tack on the com,440.88,5.099
the system message separately and then I,442.56,5.699
get the output and here it goes,445.979,4.321
um so what I what I realized is that if,448.259,5.101
you use text wrap it will it'll nullify,450.3,5.1
all of the new lines so what I do is I,453.36,5.04
split the new lines and then text wrap,455.4,4.859
it so that if there's comments then it,458.4,4.26
won't be too long so anyways there you,460.259,5.401
have it the repo is up here it's working,462.66,4.979
um the only thing that it's pretty well,465.66,3.96
documented I got in the habit of just,467.639,3.9
using chat GPT to produce the,469.62,3.54
documentation,471.539,3.541
um because that makes it easier for,473.16,3.06
everybody,475.08,3.119
um setup is super simple you just need,476.22,6.02
to open AI you need your openai API key,478.199,6.241
and then the biggest thing that you need,482.24,4.06
to know is to use a scratch pad I do,484.44,4.259
have instructions in the console output,486.3,3.899
so it'll tell you how to get into the,488.699,2.761
scratch pad and then how to get out of,490.199,4.28
it and then the the,491.46,5.459
console will tell you what what mode,494.479,3.701
you're in,496.919,2.941
um you can tell I was an infrastructure,498.18,4.199
engineer who used Cisco switches,499.86,3.36
um,502.379,2.521
because I'm just like hey this this,503.22,5.159
model Works uh anyways so yeah I think,504.9,5.4
that's about it so this is this is my,508.379,3.121
new,510.3,3.9
um chat bot coding assistant and uh yeah,511.5,4.62
I hope that you find it useful super,514.2,4.44
simple super straightforward,516.12,5.219
um yeah uh let me know if you have any,518.64,4.62
thoughts about how to improve it but I,521.339,3.841
think honestly the scratch Pad is like,523.26,4.38
all you need uh because then you can you,525.18,5.04
can update this out of band as well uh,527.64,4.92
if you want to you know,530.22,4.14
um whatever you want to put in it right,532.56,3.959
you can you can even put multiple,534.36,4.2
scripts in it or multiple files or,536.519,3.781
whatever,538.56,4.08
um but yeah so thanks for watching I,540.3,4.14
hope you liked it and I'm gonna get back,542.64,4.699
to coding bye,544.44,2.899