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moreice

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    Comment #47092878

    I agree with you. This generation of LLMs is on track to automate knowledge work. For the US, if we had strong unions, those gains could be absorbed by the workers to make our jobs…

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    Comment #46997695

    I'm sorry but the speech patterns of this article were so blatantly from Claude, I couldn't get past the first two paragraphs.

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    Comment #45522080

    No, it will not affect you. The above post is mostly correct, but it's misleading because it's from the perspective of a trader trying to make short term profits. But most of us ar…

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    Comment #36161205

    I can see the value of writing an emulator, but what was the benefit of translating from machine code to assembly instructions?

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    Comment #35509073

    You can test this hypothesis by questioning GPT-4 until you hit a detail that it doesn't know. It will say something like "Without more context or a clearer reference to this detai…

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    Comment #35485820

    On Reddit, I've heard from people in the games industry that concept artists are being replaced by AI like Midjourney. Concept art can be generated via a prompt by the game designe…

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    Comment #35300025

    I tried asking GPT-4 a math question and it does do math: Me: "What (8 * 25) / 14 + 4 - 2?" AI: "Let's break down the expression and solve it step by step: Multiply 8 and 25: 8 * 2…

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    Comment #35299964

    The backlog might shrink quickly when the LLM is testing and debugging the software 24/7 for the cost of a few dollars per hour.

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    Comment #32589589

    Agreed, also consider C++ whose type system uses implicit conversions and mutability by default, leading to a number of non-memory related bugs.

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    Comment #32446645

    What if the items in the array are bigger than a cache line?

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    Comment #32446606

    It's absolutely true that C++ is too big to keep in one's head, that doesn't mean people can't or don't care to do excellent programming in it. A good team can create quality produ…

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    Comment #32079107

    It does delete the file, as long as no other processes are accessing it and there are no other hard links to it.