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> I'm infinity times more productive, as I just wouldn't even start projects without the LLM to sidestep my ADHD. 1 is not infinitely greater than 0.

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sebastiennight 1y ago
It... literally is? Or otherwise, can you share what you think the ratio is?
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- emp17344 1y ago
  No, 1 is 1 more than 0. There’s a certain sense in which you could say that 1 is infinitely greater than 0, but only in an abstract, unquantifiable way. In this case, it doesn’t make sense to say you’re “infinitely more productive” because you’re producing something rather than nothing.
  - jama211 1y ago
    I just read it as a turn of phrase that says exactly that, that it means they produce something rather than nothing.
  - stavros 1y ago
    Only if you think that the phrase "two times more productive" is also nonsensical.
  - sebastiennight 1y ago
    It goes like this: "For any positive "x", is 1 x times greater than 0? Well, 0 times x is lower than 1, and 1 divided by x is larger than 0." So his productivity increased by more than twice, more than ten times, more than a billion times, more than a googol times, more than Rayo's number. The only mathematically useful way to quantify it is to say his productivity is infinitely larger. Unless you want to settle for "can't be compared", which is less informative.
- Fraterkes 1y ago
  I think it's a pedantic point, but maybe they just meant that talking about 1 being multitudes greater than 0 implies multiplication. And since 1/0 is undefined that doesn't make much sense.
- inopinatus 1y ago
  Someone attributing all of their productivity to a given tool and none to their own ingenuity and experience is allocating 100% credit to that tool. It is not a ratio, it is a proportion.
rvz 1y ago
Also, not invented here syndrome (NIH) is cool again. Given that most of the 'vibe-coded' projects that I have seen that are worse versions of software that have been tested and stand the test of time.

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sebastiennight 1y ago

It... literally is? Or otherwise, can you share what you think the ratio is?

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emp17344 1y ago
No, 1 is 1 more than 0. There’s a certain sense in which you could say that 1 is infinitely greater than 0, but only in an abstract, unquantifiable way. In this case, it doesn’t make sense to say you’re “infinitely more productive” because you’re producing something rather than nothing.
- jama211 1y ago
  I just read it as a turn of phrase that says exactly that, that it means they produce something rather than nothing.
- stavros 1y ago
  Only if you think that the phrase "two times more productive" is also nonsensical.
- sebastiennight 1y ago
  It goes like this: "For any positive "x", is 1 x times greater than 0? Well, 0 times x is lower than 1, and 1 divided by x is larger than 0." So his productivity increased by more than twice, more than ten times, more than a billion times, more than a googol times, more than Rayo's number. The only mathematically useful way to quantify it is to say his productivity is infinitely larger. Unless you want to settle for "can't be compared", which is less informative.
Fraterkes 1y ago
I think it's a pedantic point, but maybe they just meant that talking about 1 being multitudes greater than 0 implies multiplication. And since 1/0 is undefined that doesn't make much sense.
inopinatus 1y ago
Someone attributing all of their productivity to a given tool and none to their own ingenuity and experience is allocating 100% credit to that tool. It is not a ratio, it is a proportion.

rvz 1y ago

Also, not invented here syndrome (NIH) is cool again. Given that most of the 'vibe-coded' projects that I have seen that are worse versions of software that have been tested and stand the test of time.