AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem
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AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem
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Re: AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem
#2Anyone here see the CS50 peanut butter and jelly problem in person?
Re: AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem
#3Anyone here see the CS50 peanut butter and jelly problem in person?
Not in that course, but I've done it at a "STEM" day; it's just about the most fun I've ever had teaching.
Re: AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem
#4Why is the peanut butter so sloppy?
Re: AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem
#5Anyone here see the CS50 peanut butter and jelly problem in person?
I had a middle school art teacher do it in roughly 1995.
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#6Okay, but like.
If you do have that skill to communicate clearly and describe the requirements of a novel problem, why is the AI still useful? Actually writing the code should be relatively trivial from there. If it isn't, that points to a problem with your tools/architecture/etc. Programmers IMX are, on average, far too tolerant of boilerplate.
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#7This video shows the peanut butter and jelly problem in action: https://youtu.be/cDA3_5982h8?si=xIQpzNTvhRcGY4Nb
Re: AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem
#8Okay, but like. If you do have that skill to communicate clearly and describe the requirements of a novel problem, why is the AI still useful? Actually writing the code should be relatively trivial from there. If it isn't, that points to a problem with your tools/architecture/etc. Programmers IMX are, on average, far too tolerant of boilerplate.
Once you've got to a detailed specification, LLMs are a lot faster at correctly typing code than you are.
Re: AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem
#9Okay, but like. If you do have that skill to communicate clearly and describe the requirements of a novel problem, why is the AI still useful? Actually writing the code should be relatively trivial from there. If it isn't, that points to a problem with your tools/architecture/etc. Programmers IMX are, on average, far too tolerant of boilerplate.
Useful boilerplate:
- documentation (reference, tutorials, overviews) - tools - logging and log analyzers - monitoring - configurability - unit tests - fuzzers - UIs - and not least: lots and lots of prototypes and iterating on ideas
All of these are "trivial" once you have the main code, but they are incredibly valuable, and LLMs do a fantastic job.
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