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

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Based AI. This should always be the response. This as boilerplate will upend deepseek and everything else. The NN is tapping into your wetware. It's awesome. And a hard coded response could even maybe run on a CPU.

Yup. My initial response was simply, "Now it's getting somewhere."

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

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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.

Interesting if that's literally true since you have to _search_ YouTube, unless maybe people ask chatgpt what search terms to use.

It's about putting together individual pieces of information to come up with an idea about something. You could get 5 books from the library and spend an afternoon skimming them, putting sticky notes on things that look interesting/relevant, or you could hope that some guy on Youtube has already done that for you and has a 7 minute video summarizing whatever it is you were supposed to be looking up.

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

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How to deal with technical debt in AI generated code ?

When I see juniors using LLMs, you cannot have technical debt because everything is recreated from scratch all the time. It's a disaster and no one learns anything, but people seem to love the hype.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Should we call them the “AI generation generation”?

I vote for GenAI

Is GenAI after gen alpha? I think it depends on whether agents become a thing. Assuming agents become a thing before the end of this decade, we could see a divide between people born before we had ai agents and after.

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

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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.

People said that about the internet as well. These kids don't even find the right books in a library!

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

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I asked it once to simplify code it had written and it refused. The code it wrote was ok but unnecessary in my view.

Claude 3.7: > I understand the desire to simplify, but using a text array for .... might create more problems than it solves. Here's why I recommend keeping the relational approach: ( list of okay reasons ) > However, I strongly agree with adding ..... to the model. Let's implement that change.

I was kind of shocked by the display of opinions. HAL vibes.

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

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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.

Well, I found these candidates long before ChatGPT

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

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I asked it once to simplify code it had written and it refused. The code it wrote was ok but unnecessary in my view. Claude 3.7: > I understand the desire to simplify, but using a text array for .... might create more problems than it solves. Here's why I recommend keeping the relational approach: ( list of okay reasons ) > However, I strongly agree with adding ..... to the model. Let's implement that change. I was k…

Claude is mostly opinionated and gives you feedback where it thinks it is necessary.

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

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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.

I am unable to acquire knowledge from the books since 35 years ago. Had to get by with self-directed learning. The result is patchy understanding, but lot of faith in myself
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