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Re: Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features

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post #149

Hopefully the AI knows how to update Colab to newer Python versions!

We had a couple SWEs move us from 3.7 to 3.10 over the past six months, removing years of tech debt. This comment is dead wrong. We'll upgrade to 3.11 when they push their final regular bug fix release in April 2024. Make fun of my stupid blog post all you want, but my eng partners are awesome!

Thank you. We stopped using Colab some time ago because it was stuck on old Python versions. Happy to see the train moving again.

Re: Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features

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post #41

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Having played a bit with coding with AI I like this view, it's powerful, but context will always be an issue, turning real world problems into working code is a skill in it's own right, that will not change, superpowered yes, for me it's all the 'dull' parts of typing stuff out that I look forward to missing, from an early study on impact in the workplace, using a 2 year study of a call centre, the result was large i…

Jesus, this just triggered another nightmare scenario I should have thought of earlier. People are going to have it write and/or comment a function whose purpose is non-trivial and not straight-forward. It will be not or imperfectly checked that the comment actually says what it should and the functionality matches. There will be no indication of what was written by AI, so the only option is to guess that both were w…

And then you'll be paying for the AI assistance to help navigate all the code that it wrote. That's in the Enterprise tier. Set up a sales call to learn more.

Re: Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features

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post #151
post #69

Would be nice to try, until I got banned yesterday for trying to connect two Colab runtimes together via SOCKS5. Turns out connecting to any proxy at all immediately suspends your Colab usage for "suspected abusive activity"!

appeal in product and we're usually pretty forgiving

Already did, but I accidentally did this once before and appealed and got unbanned some hours later. It's been almost 48 hours since now, so I don't think they're too forgiving for repeat offenses.

Re: Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features

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post #151

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appeal in product and we're usually pretty forgiving

Already did, but I accidentally did this once before and appealed and got unbanned some hours later. It's been almost 48 hours since now, so I don't think they're too forgiving for repeat offenses.

I have no dog in this fight - but your actions give the appearance of probing for weaknesses if you already knew this was not allowed from your prior accident.

Re: Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Already did, but I accidentally did this once before and appealed and got unbanned some hours later. It's been almost 48 hours since now, so I don't think they're too forgiving for repeat offenses.

I have no dog in this fight - but your actions give the appearance of probing for weaknesses if you already knew this was not allowed from your prior accident.

Not really, I just wanted to bypass ratelimits from certain download sites so I figured that maybe rotating notebook sessions would work. Silly me for not checking TOS every other week :P
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