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Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?

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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?

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Even though they arent Nvidia GPUs I wonder if setting up a swarm of Intel GPUs would be worthwhile for a similar setup, more VRAM, more diverse models.

Using OpenVINO and a supported model can get you surprisingly far...

Nice, not sure why I was downvoted for suggesting the cheapest GPU which comes with quite a lot of VRAM... but I guess some people are fatigued by AI / GPU talk?

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?

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yeah, makes perfect sense to go for a hike through nature whole checking a phone every 3-8 minutes...

Well no, you don't check it, you have notifications set up so it notifies you when it's waiting for you. If you don't want to hikevibecode, don't. No one's forcing you, who are you to yuck someone else's yum?

Isn’t yucking the yum of others the foundation of human society?

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?

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"I haven't been able to enter flow state like I can when I hand write code." new flow state is having 10 terminal tabs in diff worktrees and trying to remember what each bit is

one option Ive liked for entering flow state for this is running a small 3b param model and using it as an alternative to stackoverflow or websearch while I code.

I don't often do this, mostly bc I don't care too much about most of the code I write and just want it to work, and then I skip over it and see what's missing and tell the LLM to fix it

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?

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This is similar to how our college CS problem sets were graded. We were given a spec, and we had to implement a program that conformed to it. We had access to 70% of the test suite during development, and another 30% was hidden and only evaluated after submission. We were graded out of 100. It was effective at making you think about the problem and anticipate what tests might be missing. I can see how this would be e…

The interesting twist here is that the test writer can also be wrong, the QA agent assigns blame when the implementation disagrees with a test case, and it’s not always going to be the implementation’s fault. Makes me wonder if there should be problems for CS students where given a spec and an interface, but not an actual implementation, they write the tests instead.

Had this issue at uni back in '08 (physics), my code did what was asked of it, but the auto grader didn't like it. Nagged the professor until he had a closer look and fixed the issue, and asked me to resubmit.
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