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It is weird that AI is solving hard problems for you. I can't get it to do the most basic things consistently, most of the time it's just pure garbage. I'd neve

It is weird that AI is solving hard problems for you. I can't get it to do the most basic things consistently, most of the time it's just pure garbage. I'd never pay for "AI" because it wastes more of my time than it saves. But I've never had a problem wrapping my head around a problem, I solve problems. I'm curious what kind of problem your "brain cant wrap around", but the AI could.

praveen9920 1y ago
In my case, Learning new stuff is one place I see AI playing major role. Especially the academic research which is hard to start if you are newbie but with AI I can start my research, read more papers with better clarity.
aurareturn 1y ago
I'm curious what kind of problem your "brain cant wrap around", but the AI could. One of the most common use cases is that I can't figure out why my SQL statement is erroring or doesn't work the way it should. I throw it into ChatGPT and it usually solves it instantly.
- Wilduck 1y ago
  Is that a "hard problem" though? Really?
  - aurareturn 1y ago
    Yes. To me, it is. Sometimes queries I give it are 100-200 lines long. Sure, I can solve it eventually but getting an "instant" answer that is usually correct? Absolutely priceless. It's pretty common for me to spend a day being stuck on a gnarly problem in the past. Most developers have. Now I'd say that's extremely rare. Either an LLM will solve it outright quickly or I get enough clues from an LLM to solve it efficiently.
    - navigate8310 1y ago
      Usually the term, "hard problem", is reserved for problems that require novel solutions
      - aurareturn 1y ago
        It is not. It’s relative to the subject. In this case, the original author stated that AI only good for rewriting emails. I showed a much harder problem that AI is able to help me with. So clearly, my problem can be reasonably described as “hard” relative to rewriting emails.
      - IgorPartola 1y ago
        Have you ever read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? One of the first examples in that book is how when you are disassembling a motorcycle any one bolt is trivial until one is stuck. Then it becomes your entire world for a while as you try to solve this problem and the solution can range from trivial to amazingly complex. You are using the term “hard problem” to mean something like solving P = NP. But in reality as soon as you step outside of your area of expertise most problems will be hard for you. I will give you some examples of things you might find to be hard problems (without knowing your background): - what is the correct way to frame a door into a structural exterior wall of a house with 10 foot ceilings that minimized heat transfer and is code compliant. - what is the correct torque spec and sequence for a Briggs and Stratton single cylinder 500 cc motor. - how to correctly identify a vintage Stanley hand plane (there were nearly two dozen generations of them, some with a dozen different types), and how to compare them and assess their value. - how to repair a cracked piece of structural plastic. This one was really interesting for me because I came up with about 5 approaches and tried two of them before asking an LLM and it quickly explained to me why none of the solutions I came up with would work with that specific type of plastic (HDPE is not something you can glue with most types of resins or epoxies and it turns out plastic welding is the main and best solution). What it came up with was more cost efficient, easier, and quicker than anything I thought up. - explaining why mixing felt, rust, and CA glue caused an exothermal reaction. - find obscure local programs designed to financially help first time home buyers and analyze their eligibility criteria. In all cases I was able to verify the solutions. In all cases I was not an expert on the subject and in all cases for me these problems presented serious difficulty so you might colloquially refer to them as hard problems.
  - enraged_camel 1y ago
    I work with some very complex queries (that I didn't write), and yeah, AI is an absolute lifesaver, especially in troubleshooting situations. What used to take me hours now takes me minutes.
Daz912 1y ago
Sounds like you're not capable of using AI correctly, user error.
- lompad 1y ago
  "It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong!" Sigh.
- leptons 1y ago
  Sorry, I'm not taking a comment like this from a 2-hour old account seriously. You don't know me at all.
sumedh 1y ago
Which model are you using?

praveen9920 1y ago

In my case, Learning new stuff is one place I see AI playing major role. Especially the academic research which is hard to start if you are newbie but with AI I can start my research, read more papers with better clarity.

aurareturn 1y ago

I'm curious what kind of problem your "brain cant wrap around", but the AI could. One of the most common use cases is that I can't figure out why my SQL statement is erroring or doesn't work the way it should. I throw it into ChatGPT and it usually solves it instantly.

Wilduck 1y ago
Is that a "hard problem" though? Really?
- aurareturn 1y ago
  Yes. To me, it is. Sometimes queries I give it are 100-200 lines long. Sure, I can solve it eventually but getting an "instant" answer that is usually correct? Absolutely priceless. It's pretty common for me to spend a day being stuck on a gnarly problem in the past. Most developers have. Now I'd say that's extremely rare. Either an LLM will solve it outright quickly or I get enough clues from an LLM to solve it efficiently.
  - navigate8310 1y ago
    Usually the term, "hard problem", is reserved for problems that require novel solutions
    - aurareturn 1y ago
      It is not. It’s relative to the subject. In this case, the original author stated that AI only good for rewriting emails. I showed a much harder problem that AI is able to help me with. So clearly, my problem can be reasonably described as “hard” relative to rewriting emails.
    - IgorPartola 1y ago
      Have you ever read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? One of the first examples in that book is how when you are disassembling a motorcycle any one bolt is trivial until one is stuck. Then it becomes your entire world for a while as you try to solve this problem and the solution can range from trivial to amazingly complex. You are using the term “hard problem” to mean something like solving P = NP. But in reality as soon as you step outside of your area of expertise most problems will be hard for you. I will give you some examples of things you might find to be hard problems (without knowing your background): - what is the correct way to frame a door into a structural exterior wall of a house with 10 foot ceilings that minimized heat transfer and is code compliant. - what is the correct torque spec and sequence for a Briggs and Stratton single cylinder 500 cc motor. - how to correctly identify a vintage Stanley hand plane (there were nearly two dozen generations of them, some with a dozen different types), and how to compare them and assess their value. - how to repair a cracked piece of structural plastic. This one was really interesting for me because I came up with about 5 approaches and tried two of them before asking an LLM and it quickly explained to me why none of the solutions I came up with would work with that specific type of plastic (HDPE is not something you can glue with most types of resins or epoxies and it turns out plastic welding is the main and best solution). What it came up with was more cost efficient, easier, and quicker than anything I thought up. - explaining why mixing felt, rust, and CA glue caused an exothermal reaction. - find obscure local programs designed to financially help first time home buyers and analyze their eligibility criteria. In all cases I was able to verify the solutions. In all cases I was not an expert on the subject and in all cases for me these problems presented serious difficulty so you might colloquially refer to them as hard problems.
- enraged_camel 1y ago
  I work with some very complex queries (that I didn't write), and yeah, AI is an absolute lifesaver, especially in troubleshooting situations. What used to take me hours now takes me minutes.

Daz912 1y ago

Sounds like you're not capable of using AI correctly, user error.

lompad 1y ago
"It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong!" Sigh.
leptons 1y ago
Sorry, I'm not taking a comment like this from a 2-hour old account seriously. You don't know me at all.

sumedh 1y ago

Which model are you using?