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Have you considered just walking backwards uphill in the snow to your local library and checking out an (out of date) dead tree book, like - you know like us "r
by cpursley 2y ago
Have you considered just walking backwards uphill in the snow to your local library and checking out an (out of date) dead tree book, like - you know like us "real" programmers used to do it?
The gatekeeping around using llms for coding is so goofy (and expected)...
- PKop 2y agoHe's giving advice of how to overcome what has been described as a limitation, literally not gatekeeping but opening the gate for the OP. Instead of imbuing into it some grievance narrative, why shouldn't people take the advice, if LLM's do suffer from an anti-recency bias, to find another way to learn new information that LLM's don't have in their models? If some source of information you were looking for online wasn't available but it did exist at your local library in a book, why wouldn't you go check out the book?
- cpursley 2y agoThey don't suffer from recency bias when you dump the docs right into their context.