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rkozik1989
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rkozik1989
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Dawg, LLMs cannot reason, they simply return a response based on statistical inference (voting on correct answer). If you want it to do anything correctly you need to do a thought experiment, solve the problem at a 9,000ft view, and hold it
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The problem with your example of applying analyzing something as complex and esoteric as a codebase is that LLMs cannot reason they simply return a response based on statistical inference, so unless you followed a standard like PSR for PHP
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Solve the problem at a high-level in your head, ask the LLM if your concept is correct, and then instruct the LLM to build the solution step-by-step.
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What I've found is that the capabilities of LLMs depend on the problem solving skills of the person writing the prompts. If you know exactly what needs to be done and can translate that into step-by-step prompts it can do pretty much a
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2y ago
I'm working on making a physical console for the Pico-8. Its pretty simple, works on linux booted into kiosk mode, looks for when a 3.5" floppy is inserted or removed, and loads or closes the game via a shell script. I want it to
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Baby sitting LLMs is already my job and has been for a year. It's kind of boring but honestly after nearly 20 years in the game I felt like I was approaching endgame for programming anyways.
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2y ago
Average salary? Salaries are determined by the size of the company, how much value software engineers add, supply of software engineers, and the location of the office.
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Did everyone just forget about Varnish HTTP Cache or something? Or are we just using the new shiny ball because its new?
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That's kind of the tradeoff you make with any low-code/no-code technology. You leverage prebuilt components and string them together to achieve some kind of task. Which isn't most efficient thing in the world to do but it doe
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As someone who's not neurotypical and grew up in the 1990s I don't think we really did much for mental illness or have much of understanding of it until the past 15 or so years. Growing up the school system regarded people are dis
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> Remote work allows you to live virtually wherever you want. That's not exactly true per se. My wife is from the country of Tunisia and my plan was to live and work from there, but once I got to the offer stage at each and every co