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The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

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Post by SuoDuanDao »

ghaff wrote: post #258
SuoDuanDao wrote: post #114

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Fewer, I'd assume? What I'm curious about is whether anyone has advice for people getting into programming now.

I doubt anyone has a clear enough crystal ball to give confident, actionable advice. Obviously AI, among many other things, erodes the value of most easy to acquire knowledge skills at the low end. But that kind of thing is constantly being eroded all the time and while uplevel/upskill is generally good advise, it's hardly unique to AI. Nor is there evidence yet that computer programming/software engineering is going…

reasonable statement. I think of programming as a discipline with three core skills, those being choosing what problem to solve, writing a solution, and debugging the solution. I suppose it's the writing that's gotten a lot easier with the addition of GPT, debugging has gotten slightly easier, and choosing what to work on has gotten a lot more competition.

From that framework, debugging is the new code monkeying... anyone have thoughts on that analysis?

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Post by polyphilz »

> Staying in any company right now is a negative return; you are wasting personal leverage.

I left my job at big tech a few months ago and started using ChatGPT (and now GPT 4) shortly after for personal projects.

100% stand by the author's statement. The ability to iterate and execute on my ideas in a way I've never been able to do before—combined with not having to worry about whether I'm infringing on my previous employer's intellectual property rights clause—feels so incredibly freeing.

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Post by silvervine »

Ethan_Mick wrote: post #67

> More importantly, it gives me the courage to dream and attempt things beyond my current abilities. This is one of the small things that GPT has pushed me to do. I'm an experienced programmer and grew up playing video games, but I am not a game developer. I've dabbled over the years but can't build anything outside of a tutorial. The other day, using GPT I went through and made a Pixel Dungeon clone using Phaser (Ja…

> More importantly, it gives me the courage to dream and attempt things beyond my current abilities.

I am approaching this from the opposite background ( started with an arts background and learnt coding after ), but this resonates with me massively as well.

It took me a 2 years of tutorials before doing my own things became intuitive. Feel free to reach out if you want to discuss game design.

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Post by dr_kiszonka »

plondon514 wrote: post #280
dr_kiszonka wrote: post #266

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Your website looks nice, but I don't like this statement: "Today's developers didn't learn C before learning Python [...]" Makes me feel like I am a "yesterday's developer" and that it is bad thing.

How about binary before Python?

I think the parallel in that sentence doesn't work with binary and C. I would rephrase the sentence to something along the lines of: Today's developers don't use punched cards, why should you learn how to code without the most modern tools?

BTW, in some countries, you learn binary in grade school :)

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Post by dumpsterlid »

zackmorris wrote: post #234

Semi-serious question: how do we help those too old to begin the training? When I went through profound burnout in 2019, the part of my brain that handles planning and execution shut down for about 6 months. I could barely get out of bed, brush my teeth, etc. The grieving process was rough, as well as the struggle to relearn how to function in a culture that doesn't allow breaks. And it was physical, perhaps brought…

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lelanthran wrote: post #34
bostonsre wrote: post #33

Has anyone been able to use it to effectively build more than a green field poc? It's absolutely great for that, but it's been a little clunky when trying to iterate when the context gets too large or when trying to add stuff to am existing system.

> Has anyone been able to use it to effectively build more than a green field poc? It's absolutely great for that, but it's been a little clunky when trying to iterate when the context gets too large or when trying to add stuff to am existing system. I'd like to see that too. Just this morning I got it to generate a whole lot of boilerplate. Then it appeared to get dementia: forgot which language the boilerplate was…

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