Git is a tool that helps people keep track of changes to files, especially when working on a team. Here's how it works:
1. Imagine you have a folder with some important documents in it. You can think of the folder as a "repository" in git.
2. When you make a change to one of the documents, git helps you keep a record of that change. It does this by creating a "commit," which is like a snapshot of all the files in the repository at that moment in time.
3. Each commit has a special message that explains what changed in the files. For example, you might write a commit message like "added a new paragraph to the report" or "fixed a typo in the spreadsheet."
4. You can have many different commits in a repository, and they all form a timeline of changes. This is called the "history" of the repository.
5. If you ever need to go back to an earlier version of the repository, you can use git to find the commit you want and restore the files to that version.
I built a side project recently to help with this. It searches Google, then feeds the relevant results from the pages into GPT-3 to get a summary. It seems to be accurate so far in my testing - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/researcher .
Combine it with an individual that is eager to learn and willing to treat ChatGPT as unreliable, and it stops being such bad advice.
Just like when one is hiring consultants. Don’t lie to yourself about the situation and there are cases where it can be useful. Treat it like a magic, expensive bullet that will somehow save time and money, and, well, you’ll put your eye out.
