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I don’t think you have ever written financial software. To take an example, you are not going to be able with a Chat GPT prompt to ask it to price a specific bond in a mortgage bac…

When you think of all the efforts that humans undergo to produce structured pseudo code for their own flawed software, why would we be surprised that an AI would struggle with unst…

I agree with this. None of this is irretrievable - you’ll grow out of it hopefully - many people do!

Im getting tired of my side project. I always knew it would be really hard, but everything takes longer than expected. It’s a tool that writes software, so you can imagine the comp…

I think there is a ton of innovation, much of it taking advantage of the underlying hardware that has been getting more powerful and cheaper and therefore enabling things we didn’t…

An AI that writes complex accurate code will not be based on LLMs. That’s because you cannot possibly write precise and complete instructions using human prose, regardless of wheth…

AI will be able to code faster and more accurately than we do. It won’t come from LLMs though; for one thing, their free-form human inputs will never be precise enough. Instead, it…

Most likely OpenAI would have done it first, that is assuming that LLMs are the answer. But LLMs can never be the answer since they rely on ambiguously worded free-form text writte…

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I’m pretty sure that LLMs will never replace programmers. It’s way too hard to stitch together code snippets. Also, when you think about all the misunderstandings that arise from p…

I’m old enough to remember databases like IDMS before SQL came along. SQL simplifies database access in a similar way to how AI and low-code tools simplify application that have mi…

I’m struggling with the same problem. I think it depends on who you audience is. LinkedIn might get you to potential customers in your domain, but product hunt would get you to mor…

I’ve had a few really close work friends over the years. I even met my wife at work. I agree with the notion that you should be careful about letting many work people know your per…

I don’t see any end to gaming. It meets deep human needs to master things, achieve things along the way and participate in a way that you don’t do with spectator sports, movies, or…

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In addition to all the good technical advice here, I would recommend paying attention to soft skills like written communication, presenting, persuading, reading comprehension, list…

I would use a book or internet tutorials and just start building simple programs. Even better is to write a simple program and then just keep it extending it as you try out new thi…

I tend to indulge them. After all, I do it all the time and appreciate being indulged! There’s nothing better than engaging with someone who is an expert in an area that you know l…

We built a software product that writes code. Even though it’s obviously very intelligent, it is not based on an LLM at all. We are going back and forth whether to characterize it …

Most other jobs that pay well and take advantage of your technical smarts have other downsides- you need to spend years getting a qualification. The trade off as a coder is that yo…

Can you work with a headhunter? Doing interviews is always the best way to learn about the job market and get feedback. Even if they are not able to get you the interviews you want…

Given that you are 30 with no experience I would be a little more flexible. Longer hours means more experience and it wouldn’t kill you. Many professions involve extra hours buildi…

I think that maybe we are too harsh in expecting LLMs to be perfect. If they are based off of human input that is incorrect then we might propagate such errors. But they will still…

Thanks for taking a look. Yes, we treat numerical structures as standalone entities that can be combined and manipulated. With some slight variations we do something similar for da…