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Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Post by buckyfuller »

dagw wrote: post #35
cm2187 wrote: post #21

It's going to be interesting to see the AI generation arriving in the workplace, ie kids who grew up with ChatGPT, and have never learned to find something in a source document themselves. Not even just about coding, about any other knowledge.

Apparently from what I've read, universities are already starting to see this. More and more students are incapable of acquiring knowledge from books. Once they reach a point where the information they need cannot be found in ChatGPT or YouTube videos they're stuck.

How does this make sense when you can put any book inside of an LLM?

Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Post by nerdponx »

motorest wrote: post #44
cm2187 wrote: post #21

It's going to be interesting to see the AI generation arriving in the workplace, ie kids who grew up with ChatGPT, and have never learned to find something in a source document themselves. Not even just about coding, about any other knowledge.

> It's going to be interesting to see the AI generation arriving in the workplace, ie kids who grew up with ChatGPT, and have never learned to find something in a source document themselves. I am from the generation whose only options on the table were RTFM and/or read the source code. Your blend of comment was also directed at the likes of Google and StackOverflow. Apparently SO is not a problem anymore, but chatbot…

> Your blend of comment was also directed at the likes of Google and StackOverflow. Apparently SO is not a problem anymore

And it kind of was a problem. There was an underclass of people who simply could not get anything done if it wasn't already done for them in a Stackoverflow answer or a blog post or (more recently and bafflingly) a Youtube video. These people never learned to read a manual and spent their days flailing around wondering why programming seemed so hard for them.

Now with AI there will be more of these people, and they will make it farther in their careers before their lack of ability will be noticeable by hiring managers.

Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Post by pif »

roygbiv2 wrote: post #38
dagw wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently from what I've read, universities are already starting to see this. More and more students are incapable of acquiring knowledge from books. Once they reach a point where the information they need cannot be found in ChatGPT or YouTube videos they're stuck.

If AI can't find it, how do we?

The actual intelligence in artificial intelligence is zero. Even idiots can do better than AI, if they want. Lazy idiots, on the other end...

Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Post by roygbiv2 »

zekica wrote: post #48
roygbiv2 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If AI can't find it, how do we?

By using your brain and a web search engine / searchable book index in your library / time or even asking a question somewhere public?

If it's been indexed by a Web search engine surely it's in a training dataset. The most popular Web search engines are the least efficient way of finding answers these days.

Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Post by Beretta_Vexee »

cm2187 wrote: post #21

It's going to be interesting to see the AI generation arriving in the workplace, ie kids who grew up with ChatGPT, and have never learned to find something in a source document themselves. Not even just about coding, about any other knowledge.

I recently interviewed a candidate with a degree in computer science. He was unable to explain to me how he would have implemented the Fibonacci sequence without chatGPT.

We never got to the question of recursive or iterative methods.

The most worrying thing is that the LLM were not very useful three years ago when he started university. So the situation is not going to improve.

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