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  • Light debugging I actually use an LLM for. Yes, I know, I know. But when you know it’s a syntax issue or something simple, but a quick skim through produces no results; AI be like, “Used a single quote instead of double quote on line 154, so it’s indirectly using a string instead of calling a value. Also, there’s a typo in the source name on line 93 because you spelled it like this everywhere else.”

    By design, LLMs do be good for syntax, whether a natural language or a digital one.

    Nothing worse than going through line by line, only to catch the obvious mistake on the third “Am I losing my sanity?!” run through.




  • Don’t act your age. Get to a point where you’re so dismissive of your age you have to think hard about what your age actually is.

    If I stopped and started doing things based on what I’m meant to do at an age, I’d be a miserable piece of shit. I just do and think what I want. When I’m 60, I’ll still be learning and doing what I want because I rejected the idea that I’m too old or too young for something.

    Rather than setting sights on what you want to achieve, set sights on what you never want to become. The rest just flows around that and happiness is always there because you’ve identified what unhappiness is and stayed clear of it.


  • We can, but it’s a lot of effort and time. Good AI requires a lot of patience and specificity.

    I’ve sort of accepted the gimmick of LLMs being a bit of a plateau in training. It has always been that we teach AI to learn, but currently the public has been exposed to what they perceive to be magic and that’s “good enough”. Like, being wrong so often due to bad information, bad interpretation of information, and bias within information is acceptable now, apparently. So teaching to learn isn’t a high mainstream priority compared to throwing in mass information instead—it’s far less exciting working on infrastructure.

    But here’s the cool thing about AI, it’s pretty fucking easy to learn. If you have patience and creativity to put toward training, you can do what you want. Give it a crack! But always be working on refining it. I’m sure out there right now someone’s been inspired enough to do what you’re talking about and in a few years of tears and insane electricity bills, there’ll be a viable model.


  • Yeah, get too far in or give it too much to start with, it can’t handle it. You can see this with visual generators. “Where’s the lollypop in its hand? Try again… Okay now you forgot about the top hat.”

    Have to treat them like simple interns that will do anything to please rather than admit the task is too complex or they’ve forgotten what they were meant to do.


  • saltesc@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devEfficiency
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    I use Claude for SQL and PowerQuery whenever I brain fart.

    There’s more usefulness in reading its explanation than its code, though. It’s like bouncing ideas back off someone except you’re the one that can actually code them. Never bother copying it’s code unless it’s a really basic request that’s quicker to type than to code.

    Bad quality and mass quantity in is obviously much quicker for LLMs and people that don’t understand the tech behind AI don’t understand this actually what’s going on, so it’s “magic”. A GPT is fundamentally quite simple and produces simple results full of potential issues, combine that with poor training quality and “gross”. There’s minimal check iterations it can do and how would it even do them when it’s knowledge base is more bullshit than it is quality?

    Truth is it will be years before AI can reliably code. Training for that requires building a large knowledge base of refined working solutions covering many scenarios, with explanation, to train off. It’d take longer for AI to self-learn these too without significant input from the trainer.

    Right now you can prompt the same thing six times and hope it manages a valid solution in one. Or just code it yourself.










  • saltesc@lemmy.worldtoProgressive Politics@lemmy.worldCommon Ground
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    “Nah, eight words in, I think I’ve got enough here to unload my insecurities without it seeming at all irrelevant to the full comment. In fact, I’m so confident I have the full context, I’ll include a full-stop there in the quote. The words immediately after were probably useless. There! Now, time to finish it off with a ‘If you think…’ retort that will definitely be on point and worth everyone’s time.”



  • saltesc@lemmy.worldtoProgressive Politics@lemmy.worldCommon Ground
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    “You don’t have to admit you were wrong”

    🤣

    What an opener to appeal for unity, Jesus fucking Christ.

    The American Left and Right are indistinguishable people apart from political views.

    Imagine what y’all could achieve if the circlerks were united as one big fucking circlejerk. That’s what Putin is blocking because GAWD DAMN was it effective in the last century.

    But if unity can’t be started until someone admits something they don’t believe… Cool. Enjoy the dying years of your country, furled by stubbornness above all else.

    I reiterate; The American Left and Right are indistinguishable people. Shouldn’t that mean something for common ground sake? Shake fucking hands ffs


  • Think select loose ideas of the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory without the whacky details. The vibe of holding back progression by fueling division and tribalism, constantly asserting ones ideas and opinions over others without context to do so.

    It makes the ideas and opinions less likely to happen because the people that say them do so without consideration of other’s opinions and ideas, imagining all individuals to be the same as the worst individual. This leads to the other tribe, who have the exact shortcomings as you and I, to mutually returns the same lack using the same terms and methods. Like “they”, “so you” and “tribe B wants to”. Not only does progression stagnate, it starts going backward.

    MLK preached this heavily.

    The lack of “because I want to understand” at the end of your comment implies your might be more poised to disregard or attack anything OP may have to say, rather than get a better understanding in effort to see how things can be mutually progressed. I hope I’m wrong in that.

    And sorry for the bad typos. I cleaned what I could, but my screen is damaged.