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Most of the time i'm not 'inventing' anything new too. I get a requirement, find a solution and the solution is 99,99999% not a new algorithm. I actually belie

Most of the time i'm not 'inventing' anything new too. I get a requirement, find a solution and the solution is 99,99999% not a new algorithm. I actually believe i never invented a new algorithm. Besides the next step is reasoning in GPT-5 and devin shows that GPTs/LLMs can start breaking down tasks. I don't mind being wrong tbh, there is no risk in it for me if AI will not take my job but i don't believe it. I do believve the progress will be better and better and AI will do more and more reasoning. It can easily try and do things 1000x fater than us, including reasoning. Its not hard to see that it will also be able to create its own examples and learn from them.

ToucanLoucan 3y ago
> I get a requirement, find a solution and the solution is 99,99999% not a new algorithm. I actually believe i never invented a new algorithm. I can think of tons of things I do in my day-to-day programming that, while certainly not new or remarkable advances in technology, are at least new enough that you're not going to find a Stack Overflow thread for it. Again, you guys are pointing to a code generator that can generate functions or code snippets to accomplish a particular task, and again, that is cool and I think it has a huge usage if nothing else as an assistive learning tool when you're trying to pick up a new language or get better with a library or what have you. But again, my point is, ask it to do something that doesn't appear in a bunch of those threads. Ask it to solve a particular bugbear problem in your codebase. Ask it to invent a new language, even a high level one. > It can easily try and do things 1000x fater than us, including reasoning AI is not a reasoning machine, though. I'd be very interested in what you mean by the word "reasoning" in this context.
- Oioioioiio 3y ago
  "I can think of tons of things I do in my day-to-day programming that, while certainly not new or remarkable advances in technology, are at least new enough that you're not going to find a Stack Overflow thread for it." I don't. I might solve current issues, new error messages from new/other libraries etc. but not something novel new. "reasoning": thinking about a problem, reasoning about potential solutions, estimating the best action, executing it, retrying. Reasoning in sense of, if the error message indicates a hibernate issue, reducing the search space for solution finding.

ToucanLoucan 3y ago

> I get a requirement, find a solution and the solution is 99,99999% not a new algorithm. I actually believe i never invented a new algorithm. I can think of tons of things I do in my day-to-day programming that, while certainly not new or remarkable advances in technology, are at least new enough that you're not going to find a Stack Overflow thread for it. Again, you guys are pointing to a code generator that can generate functions or code snippets to accomplish a particular task, and again, that is cool and I think it has a huge usage if nothing else as an assistive learning tool when you're trying to pick up a new language or get better with a library or what have you. But again, my point is, ask it to do something that doesn't appear in a bunch of those threads. Ask it to solve a particular bugbear problem in your codebase. Ask it to invent a new language, even a high level one. > It can easily try and do things 1000x fater than us, including reasoning AI is not a reasoning machine, though. I'd be very interested in what you mean by the word "reasoning" in this context.

Oioioioiio 3y ago
"I can think of tons of things I do in my day-to-day programming that, while certainly not new or remarkable advances in technology, are at least new enough that you're not going to find a Stack Overflow thread for it." I don't. I might solve current issues, new error messages from new/other libraries etc. but not something novel new. "reasoning": thinking about a problem, reasoning about potential solutions, estimating the best action, executing it, retrying. Reasoning in sense of, if the error message indicates a hibernate issue, reducing the search space for solution finding.