4 ms·
Why on earth would you possibly think that?
by bigbillheck 3y ago
Why on earth would you possibly think that?
- ctoth 3y agoJust as your human intelligence lead to you writing the same darn comment as another human above you, AI can often write the same code as a human would, without having to even bring creativity into it! For those of us who write code, this can be useful!
- motoboi 3y agoI'm quite confused by the answers I got from this thread. Haven't you tried refactoring with gpt-4 yet?
- bigbillheck 3y ago> Haven't you tried refactoring with gpt-4 yet? I most certainly have not. At work, I do greenfield development in a specialized problem domain, and I would not trust a model (or, for that matter, a junior developer) to do any kind of refactor in an acceptable manner. (That aside, there's no way I'm goingto expose company code to any sort of outside party without the approval of upper management). At home, I program for fun and self-improvement, and a big part of both is thinking hard about problems. Why would I want to wreck that with asking a model to do it for me?
- motoboi 3y agoOh, I understand. What if you have an idea and you tell the computer to implement it and then thoroughly check the code? About the self-improvement part, I suppose you don't operate your graphics card yourself, but delegate it to your driver. The LLM is just another tool.
- smabie 3y agoOh yea your work is far too sophisticated for a llm, got it
- bigbillheck 3y agoSome of us do actual creative work, yes.
- airstrike 3y agoSome people get significance from their ability to write code. To them, admitting an LLM can (or will soon be able to) do their work inflicts cognitive dissonance, so they refuse to believe it. Some refuse to even try it—not realizing that refusing to engage does nothing to hinder the advancement of the tool they fear.