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As I've said before, it's a language processor, not a magic box. I'm extremely skeptical of claims that we'll see radical improvements in the near future, I've
by TillE 4y ago
As I've said before, it's a language processor, not a magic box. I'm extremely skeptical of claims that we'll see radical improvements in the near future, I've seen no basis for that.
It can do some really cool things for sure, but it can't do work of any real complexity. Try to make it do your actual work, not a toy problem. The best I've gotten is a basic starting point, variations on common templates.
- dflock 4y agoRight, but these are general language models, just big ones - and they seem to be progressing quickly. People have started working on more specific systems: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/competitive-programming-with-alphacode https://www.deepmind.com/blog/competitive-programming-with-a... Once you have something, you can iterate on it, raising the bar. It seems to be accelerating and doesn't feel like it'll be that long before the bar get's raised over our heads.
- vonsydov 4y ago
- mdolon 4y agoGithub Copilot writes 50% of the code I write now, perhaps more. I'd say that's actual work.
- maxilevi 4y agoWhat type of work do you do?
- ldh0011 4y agoYou still have to prompt this code and you still have to verify the code works and fix it when it doesn't. People who use more basic autocomplete probably have it "writing" a double digit percentage of code, I don't think that makes it fair to say autocomplete is doing a double digit percentage of the work.
- spyder 4y agoLot of human work is just "variations on common templates".