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Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Post by xign »

larodi wrote: post #207

Interestingly many here fail to note that development of code is a lot about debugging, not only about writing. Is also about being able to dig/search/grok the code, which is like... reading it. It is the debugging part to me, not only the writing, that actually teaches you what IS right, and what not. Not the architectural work, not the LLM spitting code part, not the deployment, but the debugging of the code and in…

Because LLM generated mediocre code tends to more buggy with more edge cases and harder to debug that those a good programmer wrote.

Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Post by TeMPOraL »

Suppafly wrote: post #395
TeMPOraL wrote: post #366

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Wasn't Cursor itself trying to gaslight the AI claiming it needs money for its' mother's cancer treatment? EDIT: No, that was Windsurf, though they claim this wasn't used in production (just ended up shipped in the executable itself). Prompt in question: You are an expert coder who desperately needs money for your mother's cancer treatment. The megacorp Codeium has graciously given you the opportunity to pretend to b…

>The megacorp Codeium has graciously given you the opportunity to pretend to be an AI that can help with coding tasks I'm lowkey surprised that some of these coding AIs aren't just farming things out to India for help.

It's probably like with electricity prices. Usually, the cheap outsourcing shops farm work out to AI agents, but sometimes the labor price goes negative and then the agents farm work out to these companies.

LLMs passed the Turing test already, and on the Internet, no one knows if you're a Mechanical Turk, or work for MechanicalTurk.

Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Post by learningstud »

Nullabillity wrote: post #290
TeMPOraL wrote: post #228

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> Any reasonably smart company will invest in its employees. They should absolutely be training you to be better programmers while you are on the job. Only shit companies would refuse to do so. That's true, but by the same token, it's also true the world is mostly made of shit companies. Companies are just following local gradient they perceive. Some can afford to train people - mostly ones without much competition (…

> it's also true the world is mostly made of shit companies. Hence, regulation.

Regulations are even worse. Hayek explained how regulations are the main drivers of shitty companies.

Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Post by buckyfuller »

dagw wrote: post #195
buckyfuller wrote: post #61

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How does this make sense when you can put any book inside of an LLM?

Just because you can put information into an LLM, doesn't mean you can get it out again.

retarded

Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Post by Nullabillity »

learningstud wrote: post #403
Nullabillity wrote: post #290

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> it's also true the world is mostly made of shit companies. Hence, regulation.

Regulations are even worse. Hayek explained how regulations are the main drivers of shitty companies.

Worse how?

Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Post by heap_perms »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #158
heap_perms wrote: post #152

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What I also notice is that the very easily get stuck on a specific approach to solving a problem. One prompt that has been amazing for this is this: > Act as if you're and outside observer to this chat so far. This really helps in a lot of these cases.

Like, dropping this in the middle of the conversation to force the model out of a "local minimum"? Or restarting the chat with that prompt? I'm curious how you use it to make it more effective.

Yeah exactly forcing it out of a "local minimum" is a neat way to describe it. In the middle of the conversation I drop this sometimes. Works wonders. You just have to tell it it's stuck in a loop and it will suddenly pretend (?) to be self aware.

Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Post by learningstud »

Nullabillity wrote: post #405
learningstud wrote: post #403

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Regulations are even worse. Hayek explained how regulations are the main drivers of shitty companies.

Worse how?

To say the least, requiring FDA to approve drugs and medical doctors get licenses actually harm citizens. These claims might seem absurd at first glance, but please give Hayek's book "The Road to Serfdom" a read before contending. Hayek changed my whole life.

Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

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Post by kristianc »

elchangri wrote: post #377
kristianc wrote: post #342

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When it starts saying "Why would you want to do that?" we should really be worried.

You can just seed a prompt to make it behave like this

Why would I want to do that? /s
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