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by tjr 10mo ago
Ratbert was right!
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by tjr 10mo ago
At that level of detail, how far removed are we from “programming”?
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by tjr 10mo ago
Why would one opt to use an LLM-based AI tool as a compiler? It seems that would be extraordinarily complex over traditional compilers, but for what benefit?
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by tjr 10mo ago
Nondeterminism indeed does not imply non-correctness. All ten outputs might be valid. All ten will almost certainly be different -- though even that is not guaranteed. The OP referred to the notion of there being no manual; we have to figur
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by tjr 10mo ago
In the music world, I would say that, rather than DAWs, LLM-assisted coding is more like LLM-assisted music creation.
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by tjr 10mo ago
Being a nondeterministic tool, the output for a given input can vary. Rather than having a solid plan of, "if I provide this input, then that will happen", it's more like, "if I do something like this, I can expect somet
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by tjr 10mo ago
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
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by tjr 10mo ago
I might have said that I didn't realize snowflakes took photographs, but it turns out to be the work of Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, so I guess in this case, they do.
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by tjr 10mo ago
Why do you think “not using it is going to become very obvious”?
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by tjr 10mo ago
AI only hurts learning if you let it. You can still use AI and learn effectively if you are thoughtful about the way you apply it. I think that's very important. Never mind six months; with AI, "you" can "build" s
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by tjr 10mo ago
Well, in recent years, I would mainly work in a DAW system like Logic or Pro Tools, recording each track of music by playing the instrument -- be it a real instrument, or a virtual instrument played off a MIDI controller, or sometimes worki
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by tjr 10mo ago
I have not tried it. As someone with ~30 years of experience with traditional music production, this looks rather cumbersome. On the other hand, for someone more familiar with programming languages than with traditional music, this might be
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by tjr 10mo ago
There have been lots of tools and resources that have promised (and delivered!) increased programming productivity. Individual results may vary, but it seems credible that thoroughly learning and using an editor like Vim or Emacs could yiel
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by tjr 10mo ago
It's probably not unrealistic that a programmer who learns Vim well could be, say, 2x more productive in Vim than in, say, Nano. Yet programmers who have used Nano were not (at least not significantly) scoffed at or ridiculed. It was t
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by tjr 10mo ago
It's also proprietary software running on someone else's machine. All other arguments for or against aside, I am surprised that so many people are okay with this. Not in a one-time use sense, necessarily, but to have long-term pla
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by tjr 10mo ago
That's what it really all comes down to, isn't it? It doesn't matter if you're using AI or not, just like it never mattered if you were using C or Java or Lisp, or using Emacs or Visual Studio, or using a debugger or pri
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by tjr 10mo ago
I don't think it's (necessarily) equally dumb. Maybe if comparing LLM output to a book chosen at random. But I would feel much safer taking a passage from Knuth at face value than a comparable LLM passage on algorithms.
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by tjr 10mo ago
Is there any software you think should not be developed with this approach?
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by tjr 10mo ago
What do you mean by "the conventional way"?
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by tjr 10mo ago
Years ago, I worked in a job where there were recurring tasks that needed to be performed every day of the year, holidays included. During the time I was with this organization, I worked on Thanksgiving and another guy worked on Christmas.
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by tjr 10mo ago
I just asked it about vibe coding, and it happily generated numerous paragraphs and bulleted list on the subject.
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by tjr 10mo ago
Whose personal aptitudes could possibly match those of Claude the Magnificent?
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by tjr 10mo ago
There have been lots of tools that have made programming more efficient. Probably most programmers have used some of those tools, but very few have used every tool. Why do you suppose that LLMs in particular must be used?
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by tjr 10mo ago
Most good programmers that I know personally work, as do I, in aerospace, where LLMs have not been adopted as quickly as some other fields, so I honestly couldn’t say.
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by tjr 10mo ago
Some of the best programmers I know are very good at writing and/or speaking and teaching. I struggle to believe that “advanced programmers” are poor communicators.
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by tjr 10mo ago
From the GNU Manifesto: I could answer that nobody is forced to be a programmer. Most of us cannot manage to get any money for standing on the street and making faces. But we are not, as a result, condemned to spend our lives standing on t
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by tjr 10mo ago
Why is this desirable?
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by tjr 10mo ago
In context, it sounds like you are saying you used AI to make these three applications? Why can't AI add the polish and features also?
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by tjr 10mo ago
Maybe a bit depressing, but I'm not sure loaded. I was just talking to someone (in person!) a few days ago, who purported that online courses were basically dead, because people can learn from LLMs instead. And then, it seems to be a r
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by tjr 10mo ago
Is this because people seek knowledge from LLMs rather than from books now? Or is it because LLMs know everything that is in books, so people don't feel compelled to learn any more themselves?

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