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It's very good at iterating from a description to working code. You still need to know what you're doing, but it can handle a lot of details. prompt: How would you design a distrib…

It is not just regurgitating. It is synthesizing . You can ask it to update its answers. You can ask it to evaluate possible solutions, then write the code for one of the solutions…

Same as you would with your own code. You review it, ask GPT to write tests, and then tweak it. The difference is that now, you are more of a code reviewer and editor. You don't ha…

Indeed. It's ability to consider different situations and craft context-aware answers is quite incredible. Some prompts that yielded interesting results; - Assume I am a time trave…

prompt: show an example of the results for the query "Seattle ferry" 1. Washington State Ferries - Official Site https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Ferries 2. Seattle Ferries | Visit Seattle…

Here's a few: - Implement a simple ray tracer in C++ using opengl. Provide compilation instructions for macos. - Create a two layer fully connected neural network with a softmax ac…

It really is amazing. Things it did in less than 10 seconds from hitting enter: - opengl raytracer with compilation instructions for macos - tictactoe in 3D - bitorrent peer handsh…

chatgpt solved a little accounting data problem for me. A relative wants to automatically classify credit card expenses and import them into quickbooks. Should be super easy, you w…

You'll still need engineers. But how many? Before: a few really knowledgeable/good ones and a lot of OK ones A few years from now: a few really good ones What does this mean for th…

Seems like there's plenty, but a lot of em' are already gainfully employed by Google, MSFT, FB and co.

It's not _that_ complicated these days. structs, classes strings, vectors, hash maps, unique_ptr, references, non-owning pointers where it makes sense, basic templates. Boom. You a…

Up (series) which follows the lives of 14 British people from different backgrounds over 50 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_(film_series)

They interview people from everywhere. Literally everywhere. They basically have tapped the whole market worth of talent. You might not get an interview at any given company in a p…

In addition to a surplus of great people, they have lots of mediocre people too, just like everywhere else. There may have been a time where this wasn't true, but now anyone who pa…

I have been working for about 4.5 years now across 3 big tech companies (Google included). I would consider myself a hardworking and ambitious person who loves computer science. I …