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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I thought it was copy and pasting from stack overflow

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Now a days it's:

  • Open ChatGPT
  • Paste code
  • "Can you just fix this for me?"
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ChatGPT has taught me so much basic programming I should have learned years ago. Don't know if I'll remember any of it since Ill just end up pasting my almost working stuff into ChatGPT again once I'm stuck.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

^^^ How skynet was born, ChatGPT injecting subroutines copied by lackadaisical programmers copying and pasting without checking

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh I'm reading and making sure I understand everything. I usually write the suggestions into my code myself to try to get it into my fingers. But it is usually basic stuff I haven't done very often I struggle with. Like building a JSON as an object by adding each part step by step and serializing every input properly, instead of just building the JSON string by hand.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Chatgpt is good for code reviews. I wouldn't trust it for making code though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are there any other LLM interfaces or co-pilot programming tools you'd recommend over ChatGPT, or wouldn't you trust LLMs in general?

As I see it, since we can keep iterating, reviewing, rewriting prompts, and even use ~~tools~~ frameworks like autogen to let multiple LLMs interact to solve a problem on our behalf, your take is somehow only diggin' the surface.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Mostly, its my own personal choice / preference.

When I see chatgpt spun up code, sometimes its rock solid. Sometimes it uses weird logic that is hard to follow. I prefer it to review my code, rather than review its.

I'm kind of partial to how military concepts use cases for ai. Like anything that can do damage or complex tasks must be done by a human. Mediocre tasks, I can see a use for it.

Like for instance, write a code to automate scheduling jobs to backup multiple systems using this fileset to backup or skip I'd feel OK to let ai do. They should all be basically the same. But to script code that is critical to infrastructure and/or complex I feel it is not the right tool to use.

Edit: all LLMs are basically the same imo. The github one might have access to more code though, idk never used it. If it does look at private repos, then I'd say it would be better, but honestly I think they're about the same.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't you think it's just a question of time before it's becoming good enough or better than us at some of these tasks? I do. With better training data, more parameters, better quantization, and now even memory management with memGPT, I see some very interesting evolutions becoming possible.

To me, saying "all LLMs are the same", sounds like saying "all humans are the same", to which I strongly disagree. Different people are good at different things. Otherwise, there'd be no need to hire any specialized workers.

Military usecases is a big ethical discussion. Autonomous drones sound pretty scary, at least as long as the technologies are not fully understood. Many people would probably agree that humans should always stay in control when serious damage could be done. However, many are ok with self-driving cars etc. There are many answers to be found in this regard, but I'm not sure this thread is the place to find them... However, I'd still like to hear if you have any thoughts to add on autonomous machines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I see some very interesting evolutions becoming possible

It's funny to me to think about LLMs training on LLM-generated input. Sort of like a photo copy of a photo copy (reminder to self: watch Multiplicity this weekend). Would seem like it'd reach some Kentucky level of generational inbreeding, but at a much much faster rate.

So how to stop LLM inbreeding? I think there's computer scientists that have already written entire theses/dissertations on detecting AI generated stuff. My understanding is it's getting more difficult, depending on the medium - generated text formats are generally harder to detect than imagery... for now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

In my experience, it tends to have difficulties with restrictions, and will attempt to use the normal method for things no matter what

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Should I feel bad if I feel referenced?

Edit: No. Not really, and neither does anyone else reading this. It's stupid to feel bad about what an absolute stranger says on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If that's literally all you do, then yes. If not, you just know your tools.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not so, I code by myself and when I have a problem I ask ChatGPT but I do not say "do everything for me".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm actually impressed how aptly that reference applies.

The legend of John Henry is that he beat a steam engine at the task of drilling through a mountain. John and his assistant (a shaker) had the advantage of being able to finely tune how the steel driver was placed, struck, and chips of rock moved out of the way. Contrast that with how the steam engine drill just rotely brute-force drilled, but got clogged by the resulting rock chips and could drill no more.

So the moral is the humans beat out the machine due to being able to finesse the situation, even though intuitively a machine should have been able to prevail due to its superior raw strength.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eventually, but it starts with Googling and trying a bunch of other example code and failing miserably.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Don't forget rewriting the entire thing a few times until you find a library that actually does what you need it to.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago