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Post this comment on LinkedIn and see how long it takes for some unqualified tech 'speaker' to tell you you're about to be left in the dirt!
12 months ago, they were web3 experts
I use LLM-based autocomplete in my IDE, and it’s not taking away my job unless/until it improves by multiple orders of magnitude. It’s good at filling in boilerplate, but even for that I have to carefully check its output because it can make little errors even when I feel like what I want should be obvious. The article is absolutely correct in saying you have to be critical of its output. I would say it improves my p…
I find it increases my productivity about 5-10% when working with the technologies I'm the most familiar with and use regularly (Elixir, Phoenix, JavaScript, general web dev.) But when I'm doing something unfamiliar and new, it's more like 90%. It's incredible. Recently at work, for example, I've been setting up a bunch of stuff with some new technologies and libraries that I'd never really used before. Without ChatG…
This article touches on llms for mostly code generation, I however would be more interested in visuals. What are the good resources to learn about image editing AI tools, prompts and techniques? My understanding is pretty limited, and correct me if I'm wrong, but like one would be using Stable Diffusion or Midjourney, and for a "professional" tool - Photoshop with official AI plug-ins?
I sure picked the worst time to be unemployed and look at a coding career again after a decade
There are a ton of people looking for help with generative AI and you can be useful if you just play around with it for a few weeks, because a lot of them have no idea about the basics. If you are willing to be underpaid there is no need to be unemployed -- just spend a few weeks studying and then go on Upwork.
I've been thinking about this.. most programmers use frameworks/libraries, e.g. Spring/Hibernate in Java or React in JavaScript. Is there a way to train LLM to "specialize" in our frameworks/libraries of choice? I assume it would result in faster/smaller/more accurate result?
Normally with the ChatGPT API you just feed API information or examples into the prompt. One version of GPT-4 has 32k context. The other has 8k and 3.5 has 16k now. So you can give it a lot of useful information and make it work quite a lot better for some specific task. When you pick something like React or Spring in general, depending on what you mean that might be huge amount of info to keep them current on. But if you narrow it down to a few modules then you can give them the latest API info etc.
Another option is now to feed ChatGPT a list of functions it can call with the arguments. It generally won't screw the actual function call part up, even with 3.5.
ChatGPT Plugins you can give an OpenAPI spec.
Then you implement the functions/API you give it. So they could be a wrapper for an existing library.
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> I also find it bizarre that so many people feel precious about the code. Would you find it bizarre that a joiner feels precious about not just the cabinet they made (value), but how they made it? The joints they used, the process they went through, the wood (i.e., the code )? A plumber, electrician, architect, designer, programmer -- we take pride in our skills. Craftmanship is a virtue, not a vice.
Your analogy suggests that the code is the final product, akin to a cabinet or a building, something tangible that can be appreciated for its craftsmanship. In some instances, like open-source software, the code might indeed be viewed this way, but in most cases, it's not the code itself that end-users appreciate, it's the functionality it provides. To refine your analogy, the code isn't the cabinet - it's more like…
Jesus, these things really are coming for my job.
I use LLM-based autocomplete in my IDE, and it’s not taking away my job unless/until it improves by multiple orders of magnitude. It’s good at filling in boilerplate, but even for that I have to carefully check its output because it can make little errors even when I feel like what I want should be obvious. The article is absolutely correct in saying you have to be critical of its output. I would say it improves my p…
Its hard to say if it improves my productivity because I just wouldn’t have done those things
But for the overall applications I think its improved a lot because we can implement best practices more consistently and catch regressions due to the aforementioned unit tests and documentation
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I find it increases my productivity about 5-10% when working with the technologies I'm the most familiar with and use regularly (Elixir, Phoenix, JavaScript, general web dev.) But when I'm doing something unfamiliar and new, it's more like 90%. It's incredible. Recently at work, for example, I've been setting up a bunch of stuff with some new technologies and libraries that I'd never really used before. Without ChatG…
The thing is the hallucinations, I also wasted few hours trying to work on solutions with GPT where it just kept making up parameters and random functions.
Better to ask it for a bunch of small things and piece them together
I'm surviving just fine by not using any LLMs.