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You stop using AI.

by qubex 9mo ago

You stop using AI.

gus_massa 9mo ago
I'm using Gemini in Google Search to get one line snippets. Sometimes they are wrong, but close enough to fix them. It's like going to expert-exchange or stack-overflow, sometime better, sometimes less predictable.
- qubex 9mo ago
  I don’t know how you could possibly consider that acceptable insofar as you’re writing software and have a professional, moral, and ethical obligation to make it as robust as humanly possible, not just some exercise in approximation.
  - gus_massa 9mo ago
    Anecdote time, take a seat: A few month ago I wanted to do a short pause in Chez Scheme. I use mostly Racket, that is very similar, but there a a few differences here and there. I wanted to send a bug report about a program that entered an infinite loop. Without the pause the example just printed a lot of "" and the screen got intermediately full. With a short pause it was possible to read the debug message just above the "********..." and hit ^C to take a deeper look. I went to Google, expecting to go to SO (is EE still online?), but Gemini gave me the answer. There is no builtin easy "pause", so I had to create a time period of 1 seconds and then use another instruction to wait for that period. Me> https://www.google.com/search?q=pause+1+second+chez+scheme* https://www.google.com/search?q=pause+1+second+chez+scheme* Gemini> (sleep (make-time 'time-duration 0 1)) I think they had arguments in the wrong order, it looks like it's fixed now, perhaps it was wrong only in my mind because I expected the other order. I looked at the online docs https://cisco.github.io/ChezScheme/csug/system.html#./system:s215 https://cisco.github.io/ChezScheme/csug/system.html#./system... . Fixed the example and adjusted the duration. (I initially used 1 second, but it's boring and it looks like the program hanged. .01 is too fast, probably .1 or .2 is the best, I don't remember the exact details.) --- Back to your question: I consider that totally professional and moral.

You stop using AI.

by qubex 9mo ago

You stop using AI.

I'm using Gemini in Google Search to get one line snippets. Sometimes they are wrong, but close enough to fix them. It's like going to expert-exchange or stack-overflow, sometime better, sometimes less predictable.

qubex 9mo ago
I don’t know how you could possibly consider that acceptable insofar as you’re writing software and have a professional, moral, and ethical obligation to make it as robust as humanly possible, not just some exercise in approximation.
- gus_massa 9mo ago
  Anecdote time, take a seat: A few month ago I wanted to do a short pause in Chez Scheme. I use mostly Racket, that is very similar, but there a a few differences here and there. I wanted to send a bug report about a program that entered an infinite loop. Without the pause the example just printed a lot of "" and the screen got intermediately full. With a short pause it was possible to read the debug message just above the "********..." and hit ^C to take a deeper look. I went to Google, expecting to go to SO (is EE still online?), but Gemini gave me the answer. There is no builtin easy "pause", so I had to create a time period of 1 seconds and then use another instruction to wait for that period. Me> https://www.google.com/search?q=pause+1+second+chez+scheme* https://www.google.com/search?q=pause+1+second+chez+scheme* Gemini> (sleep (make-time 'time-duration 0 1)) I think they had arguments in the wrong order, it looks like it's fixed now, perhaps it was wrong only in my mind because I expected the other order. I looked at the online docs https://cisco.github.io/ChezScheme/csug/system.html#./system:s215 https://cisco.github.io/ChezScheme/csug/system.html#./system... . Fixed the example and adjusted the duration. (I initially used 1 second, but it's boring and it looks like the program hanged. .01 is too fast, probably .1 or .2 is the best, I don't remember the exact details.) --- Back to your question: I consider that totally professional and moral.