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Artificial intelligence is losing hype

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Re: Artificial intelligence is losing hype

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Post by mlloyd »

_acco wrote: post #207

AI (specifically Claude Sonnet via Cursor) has completely transformed my workflow. It's changed my job description as a programmer. (And I've been doing this for 13y – no greenhorn!) This wasn't the case with GPT-4/o. This capability is very new. When I spoke to a colleague at Microsoft about these changes, they were floored. Microsoft has made themselves synonymous with AI, yet their company is barely even leveragin…

The most valuable thing AI has done for me with coding is commenting my code and creating documentation from it. It saves so much time doing a task that hardly any of us actually want to do - and it does it well.

Re: Artificial intelligence is losing hype

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Post by jlarocco »

iluvcommunism wrote: post #353
wokwokwok wrote: post #347

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you spend 10 minutes writing a free text description of the test you want; tell it exactly how you want it to write the test, and then 4-5 minutes trying to understand if it did the right thing or not, restart because it did something crazy then a few minutes manually fixing the diff it generated? MMmm. I mean, don't get me wrong; this is impressive stuff; but it needs to be an order of magnitude less 'screwing ar…

I used it for some troubleshooting in my job. Linux Sys Admin. I like how I can just ask it a question and explain the situation and it goes thru everything with me, like a Person.

How worried are you that it's giving you bad advice?

There are plenty of, "Just disable certificate checking" type answers on Stack Overflow, but there are also a lot of comments calling them out. How do you fact check the AI? Is it just a shortcut to finding better documentation?

Re: Artificial intelligence is losing hype

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Post by aschobel »

Calavar wrote: post #359
_acco wrote: post #207

AI (specifically Claude Sonnet via Cursor) has completely transformed my workflow. It's changed my job description as a programmer. (And I've been doing this for 13y – no greenhorn!) This wasn't the case with GPT-4/o. This capability is very new. When I spoke to a colleague at Microsoft about these changes, they were floored. Microsoft has made themselves synonymous with AI, yet their company is barely even leveragin…

I feel like I'm living in a different universe sometimes. The consensus on HN seems to be that you can be pretty productive with LLMs as coding assistants, but every time I try I find it borderline impossible to get functional code even for pretty straightforward prompts. I decided to fire up GPT-4o again today to see if maybe things have gotten better over the past few months. I asked GPT to write code to render a t…

Give it another shot but with Claude Sonnet 3.5. It’s my daily driver for coding tasks.

It seems especially strong with Python but a bit medium with Swift.

Re: Artificial intelligence is losing hype

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Post by anon291 »

yoyohello13 wrote: post #352
anon291 wrote: post #340

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> don't believe LLMs will get any better than this without a new major breakthrough, but this is already better than using Google search I mean .. every single org is invested in that research right now

Money helps, but doesn’t guarantee breakthroughs.

The sort of transformation needed here seems achievable. There are various roadmaps to success whereas there were not any roadmaps to general language agents just a few years ago.

Re: Artificial intelligence is losing hype

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Post by deadbabe »

_acco wrote: post #207

AI (specifically Claude Sonnet via Cursor) has completely transformed my workflow. It's changed my job description as a programmer. (And I've been doing this for 13y – no greenhorn!) This wasn't the case with GPT-4/o. This capability is very new. When I spoke to a colleague at Microsoft about these changes, they were floored. Microsoft has made themselves synonymous with AI, yet their company is barely even leveragin…

This is just Dunning-Kruger effect.

Re: Artificial intelligence is losing hype

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Post by MetaWhirledPeas »

_acco wrote: post #207

AI (specifically Claude Sonnet via Cursor) has completely transformed my workflow. It's changed my job description as a programmer. (And I've been doing this for 13y – no greenhorn!) This wasn't the case with GPT-4/o. This capability is very new. When I spoke to a colleague at Microsoft about these changes, they were floored. Microsoft has made themselves synonymous with AI, yet their company is barely even leveragin…

I think tools like Copilot are best for people learning a popular programming language from scratch. You get better answers and easier problems to solve. The more experience you have the more you can outpace it in terms of correctness and appropriateness.

Re: Artificial intelligence is losing hype

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Post by bpiroman »

MetaWhirledPeas wrote: post #367
_acco wrote: post #207

AI (specifically Claude Sonnet via Cursor) has completely transformed my workflow. It's changed my job description as a programmer. (And I've been doing this for 13y – no greenhorn!) This wasn't the case with GPT-4/o. This capability is very new. When I spoke to a colleague at Microsoft about these changes, they were floored. Microsoft has made themselves synonymous with AI, yet their company is barely even leveragin…

I think tools like Copilot are best for people learning a popular programming language from scratch. You get better answers and easier problems to solve. The more experience you have the more you can outpace it in terms of correctness and appropriateness.

Not a fan of Copilot - having a chat bot separate from your coding environment feels much cleaner.

Re: Artificial intelligence is losing hype

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Post by Oras »

Calavar wrote: post #359
_acco wrote: post #207

AI (specifically Claude Sonnet via Cursor) has completely transformed my workflow. It's changed my job description as a programmer. (And I've been doing this for 13y – no greenhorn!) This wasn't the case with GPT-4/o. This capability is very new. When I spoke to a colleague at Microsoft about these changes, they were floored. Microsoft has made themselves synonymous with AI, yet their company is barely even leveragin…

I feel like I'm living in a different universe sometimes. The consensus on HN seems to be that you can be pretty productive with LLMs as coding assistants, but every time I try I find it borderline impossible to get functional code even for pretty straightforward prompts. I decided to fire up GPT-4o again today to see if maybe things have gotten better over the past few months. I asked GPT to write code to render a t…

Try deepseek coder
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