Phoenix

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[–] Phoenix@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It may be an opinion, but pointing it out won't make me like java any more.

[–] Phoenix@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

If I find myself repeating more than twice, I just ask "Can this be a function". If yes, I move it there. If not, I just leave it as it is.

Life's too short to spend all day rewriting your code.

[–] Phoenix@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Yes, but also I would hope that if you have the autonomy to install linux you also have the autonomy to look up an unknown command before running it with superuser privileges.

[–] Phoenix@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

If you want a pretty cool example, Le morte d'Arthur was written in prison.

[–] Phoenix@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're definitely among the worst of the worst. It's always surprised me how comparatively sterile their wiki page is. Feels like they've got someone cleaning it up.

[–] Phoenix@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

w++ is a programming language now 🤡

[–] Phoenix@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can make it as complicated as you want, of course.

Out of curiosity, what use-case did you find for it? I'm always interested to see how AI is actually applied in real settings.

[–] Phoenix@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lazy is right. Spending fifty hours to automate a task that doesn't take even five minutes is commonplace.

It takes laziness to new, artful heights.

[–] Phoenix@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

True! Interfacing is also a lot of work, but I think that starts straying away from AI to "How do we interact with it." And let's be real, plugging into OAI's or Anthropic's API is not that hard.

Does remind me of a very interesting implementation I saw once though. A VRChat bot powered by GPT 3.5 with TTS that used sentiment classification to display the appropriate emotion for the text generated. You could interact with it directly via talking to it. Very cool. Also very uncanny, truth be told.

All that is still in the realm of "fucking around" though.

[–] Phoenix@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's only the first stage. Once you get tired enough you start writing code that not even you can understand the next morning, but which you're loathe to change because "it just works".

[–] Phoenix@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

"The bug is fixed, but we inadvertently created two new ones, one of which broke production because it was inexplicably not caught."

[–] Phoenix@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you want to disabuse yourself of the notion that AI is close to replacing programmers for anything but the most mundane and trivial tasks, try to have GPT 4 generate a novel implementation of moderate complexity and watch it import mystery libraries that do exactly what you want the code to do, but that don't actually exist.

Yeah, you can do a lot without writing a single line of code. You can certainly interact with the models because others who can have already done the leg work. But someone still has to do it.

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