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by jf22 1y ago
You can easily google "generative AI success stories" and read about them. There are always a few comments that make it seem like LLMs have done nothing valuable despite massive levels of adoption.
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by jf22 1y ago
How are you evaluating the phrase "yet not one company?"
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by jf22 1y ago
I'd challenge your assumption that quality is collapsing. I remember the good old days where nobody unit tested, there were no linters or any focus on quality tools in IDEs. Gang of four patterns we take for granted were considered eso
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by jf22 1y ago
A few years ago a I read an interesting quote by a Chinese official and how confident they are they'll surpass the US. It was something like, "the US spent trillions on wars in the middle east, we spent trillions investing in our
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by jf22 1y ago
A different way to think about this is asking why anybody thinks they can be correct about this? If records surrounding this topic are always correct and require revision maybe that's just how the data presents itself. You only know th
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by jf22 1y ago
It won't be for a long time. World population may increase well into the 2100s.
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by jf22 1y ago
What would you tell a junior dev that did this? You tell them not to create extra abstract classes and put that in your onboarding docs. You literally do the same thing with llms. Instead of onboarding code standards docs you make rules fil
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by jf22 1y ago
That's why you have other LLMs review.
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by jf22 1y ago
>which means you need to deeply review and understand the tests as well as the code it's testing Yes...? Why wouldn't you always do this LLM or not?
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by jf22 1y ago
Ha, I don't know how to take that? I assure you I wrote it myself.
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by jf22 1y ago
I know this is sarcasm but if you've been using LLMs for most than two weeks you've probably noticed significant improvements in both the models and the tooling. Less than a year ago I was generated somewhat silly and broken unit
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by jf22 1y ago
It's easy to avoid overly complex solutions with LLMs. First, your prompts should be direct enough to the LLM doesn't wander around producing complexity for no reason. Second, you should add rules/learning/context to alw
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by jf22 1y ago
I should have dropped out to get my GED and started coding more in highschool.
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by jf22 1y ago
Still an IDE right?
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by jf22 1y ago
Your job will look pretty funny at you if you want to code everything by hand while everyone else is using VSCode.
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by jf22 1y ago
Both of your examples increase productivity.
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by jf22 1y ago
But you'd have to use an IDE right?
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by jf22 1y ago
>Nobody’s doing anything like that for other productivity tools even when they’re proven to be helpful. Isn't mandating IDE usage a perfectly reasonable and common thing? It's a productivity tool after all.
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by jf22 1y ago
I don't. I gave up. In my 20+ years nobody has ever maintained the docs and we all somehow made it. Businesses and careers don't rise and fall based on whether or not a readme file is up to date. Also, in the age of AI producing a
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by jf22 1y ago
Yeah sure, but populations are increasing TODAY as in NOW and will happen for multiple decades for most countries. Your statement about populations declining is just untrue.
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by jf22 1y ago
I don't know what you're saying. >Practically the whole planet is experiencing population decline now. That's objectively false.
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by jf22 1y ago
This isn't accurate. Birth rates are declining but population is still increasing in most countries.
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by jf22 1y ago
Can you prove the school made money from the football? You're just saying football is popular and some revenue comes in, but nothing that proves football is money making for the district.
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by jf22 1y ago
Do you take your toddlers out to eat a lot?
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by jf22 1y ago
I didn't say learning the basics was a bad thing... I said memorization wasn't important... I find it frustrating people argue against points that were never made.
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by jf22 1y ago
Recalling math trivia is not thinking... that's why it's called memorization...
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by jf22 1y ago
I didn't say all memorization was bad, just that we should understand we are comparing cultures that treat rote memorization differently.
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by jf22 1y ago
I don't like the comparisons to other schools or cultures where memorization is the priority. What kids do with what they learn in school matter more than whether or not they memorized a calc function. Besides, who cares if you know ca
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by jf22 1y ago
I'm at those things. I don't see even 10% of people on their phones. Yeah people check in but I see involved parents. Plus, these activities aren't causing missed education. I'm not teaching my kids math while they go on
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by jf22 1y ago
Is there any study or evidence supports that MOST parents "watch TV, stare at their phones and don't want to be bothered by anything that requires effort?" This is a common trope but I've never seen any evidence.

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