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Command line functions around OpenAI
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#102Writing code is the basic 101 of our industry. Anyone can write a loop or an if statement. With todays computing power, for most applications even poorly written code will run and will execute quite fast. What makes someone a 10x (and i hate that term) is the ability to take requirements, or better yet, a vague idea given to them by the business and turn that into software that benefits the end user and makes the com…
"The 10x engineer gets to the 'why' that you are building something, not the 'how'."
It's a pity that our interviews are all biased towards the "how"
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#103Being efficient at writing code can barely make someone a 5x engineer. A team of people who write code effectively is easy to do. Hyperproductivity in software is all about deciding what problems to tackle. Richard Hipp isn't worried about chipotle restaurant orders in golang, he's worried about how to store data reliably. That isn't a coding puzzle that ChatGTP is likely to help with. Either ChatGTP can do the whole…
I'll add that programmers don't produce code. They produce business guarantees. And their main tool to do so are: * Understanding the value proposition as a human, often as through a conversation; often with hidden criteria that you'll have to uncover * Making sure the code respects the value proposition. As reading other people's code takes more time than writing it, ChatGPT won't help that much here. ---- One devel…
Chain of thought reasoning is being explored with some success. It’s better for it to be explicit output instead of internal, remember that the next token is being predicted based on the previous ones.
Your two points may not be as sound as you think. The second one can be defeated now since ChatGPT is quite good at generating descriptions of what code is doing. The first point is more subtle, you can iterate on code with ChatGPT but right now you need to know how to run the code to get the results before providing feedback. Once tools are developed for ChatGPT to do that itself then it could just show the results and a non technical person could ask for follow up changes.
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#104At what point did we stop making fun of that 10x engineer thread and started taking it seriously? Who forgot that 10x was a silly little thing that made zero sense in the real world?
Maybe the 10x engineer isn’t true, but I’ve worked at companies where I was on a team and my output was equal to the rest of the team combined. So if there isn’t such a thing it must mean that there are 1/10X engineers and they’re prevalent.
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#105> First off, you’ll need an OpenAI API key. You can get this by going here and signing up. Note that you'll also need to be from a Western country, or at least have access to both a phone number from one and a VPN. And if you want a plus subscription, you'll also need a US credit card - not stated anywhere but I've been totally unable to sign up for plus with either Irish or Belgium cards, it just immediately flashes…
Used an Irish card about 12 hrs ago, no problem.
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#106At what point did we stop making fun of that 10x engineer thread and started taking it seriously? Who forgot that 10x was a silly little thing that made zero sense in the real world?
There are obvious examples of 10x performers in every creative endeavor. Why would it be any different in software engineering? There are people who find bugs 10x faster than others, design stuff that's 100x easier to maintain, increase morale of a team vs being an energy drain, make changes faster without breaking stuff, etc. There are a lot of ways one can become 10x more effective than another at building software…
There are examples, yes, but I took it as the implication that a 10x engineer shouldn't be the bare minimum for the entire workforce's ability to reason about a problem or dedication to its craft (and thus lead to the meme that one isn't worth spent effort unless they are in the >=10x group).
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#107Being efficient at writing code can barely make someone a 5x engineer. A team of people who write code effectively is easy to do. Hyperproductivity in software is all about deciding what problems to tackle. Richard Hipp isn't worried about chipotle restaurant orders in golang, he's worried about how to store data reliably. That isn't a coding puzzle that ChatGTP is likely to help with. Either ChatGTP can do the whole…
I mean saying that using ChatGPT will make you one of the most elite coders in the world is a pretty high bar no? I have been skeptical about all this, but decided to play with using ChatGPT for coding a task I had. It wasn't perfect, either in workflow or in final results but what was clear was that not adopting it will very quickly make you lag behind your peers. I think the additive bonus is especially high for se…
The tooling will be pretty interesting.. basically prompts per file and a overlaying diff per prompt..
Focus mostly on the almost functional design of software, with well defined input and output as the most important criteria. Also lots of "meta" tags, that filter the trained in network layers for "fast" code, "secure" code, "minimal working smaple" code by injecting addtional prompts. The trick is to use the prompts as a selection menue for the data variations stored within the Network.
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#108> First off, you’ll need an OpenAI API key. You can get this by going here and signing up. Note that you'll also need to be from a Western country, or at least have access to both a phone number from one and a VPN. And if you want a plus subscription, you'll also need a US credit card - not stated anywhere but I've been totally unable to sign up for plus with either Irish or Belgium cards, it just immediately flashes…
I used a UK card and it worked first time.
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#109At what point did we stop making fun of that 10x engineer thread and started taking it seriously? Who forgot that 10x was a silly little thing that made zero sense in the real world?
Unfortunately people thinking they are overall worth 10 to 1000 times their co-workers exists.
I have had coworkers that were 10x more valuable than the other coworkers. If you haven't then your company probably only employs people that are incredibly talented or incredibly mundane
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good points. I feel obligated to tell you that it is spelled, ChatGPT not ChatGTP.
Apologies, it is very common for an LMM to make this kind of mitsakes.
For clarity on anyone wondering what LMM stands for. Its Large Manguage Model.
Apologies, couldn’t help myself either