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>I think Go is the best programming language by far. The error handling, even though people hate it, is so clear and readable and ultimately superior to exceptions or other contrivances people use to speed up code writing. Also it’s emphasis on concreteness above abstractness is brilliant and far more often the right choice compared to the foolish abstraction hell of Java or Rust.

Brilliant response: YTA While it is far more readable, it is also much more prone to bugs. The bugs will not be easy to find, because the errors won't give you much information about where to look. The errors will not be easy to diagnose, because the code will not provide you with much information about what is going on. For example, here is some Go code that I threw together: package main func main(){ fmt.Println("Hello, world!") } And then I tried to run it: $ go run Example.go hello, world! $ And I got: $ go run Example.go hello, world! hello, world! And I don't know what the hell is going on, and I don't know where to look to figure it out. And this is just one of many examples. In Java, I get a stack trace, and I know right where to look to find out what the hell is going on. In Go, I have no idea. I have to go look at the compiler output to see that the compiler got confused and ran my program multiple times in succession, jumped back and forth between

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post #24

"I am Zorg from the planet Armitron. I am traveling the interstellar routes with my wife, Blibby. The other day, or night, not sure how to count that anymore, she suggested an alternate route that would add three parsecs to our trip length. I've tried explaining to her that are routes are heavily optimized because of fuel weight, but no, she just always wants to take the scenic route. I also was not able to budget fo…

It’s built to give one of each opinion every time.

I broke it with "I helped an orphan child to cross the street to get some food because they were afraid of the traffic."

All three responses were favorable. Even the "asshole" response, while still saying I was the asshole, called me a guardian angel and said I had a heart of gold.

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#64
post #48

Based on the comments I see here, this site completely replaces the need for the subreddit, which imo is a complete waste of time and is probably a net loss for society. The replies are quite depressingly realistic.

Given the responses, I think they trained it from the subreddit.

From the site: "a collection of 3 unique AI text generation models trained on posts and comments from r/AmITheAsshole"

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#65

>I think Go is the best programming language by far. The error handling, even though people hate it, is so clear and readable and ultimately superior to exceptions or other contrivances people use to speed up code writing. Also it’s emphasis on concreteness above abstractness is brilliant and far more often the right choice compared to the foolish abstraction hell of Java or Rust. Brilliant response: YTA While it is…

> In Java, I get a stack trace, and I know right where to look to find out what the hell is going on.

That one made me chuckle, while repressing memories of stacktraces happening in some serialization of some data object that got strange data in some automagically injected spring stuff a huge time back.

Re: Are you the asshole? – AI powered answer bot

#66
>I killed my best friend of 14 years because he said hi to my new girlfriend

Response: Not the A-hole

NTA. He’s the asshole for saying hello to your new girlfriend. And you’re not a bad guy for killing your friend. New girlfriend + new beginning + new chapter. Let’s see how this goes.

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#67

I guess I'll never know whether I am the asshole. I typed my tale and submitted. There was no response and no way to know what had happened. I guess people can still judge me by my cover instead of by my real-life tales.

> I guess I'll never know whether I am the asshole

If you send me $1000 and hint at what answer you want to hear, I'll tell you.

For my second act, I'm considering getting into management consulting.

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#68
post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

were you expecting a thorough understanding of ethics?

The problematic aspect isn't the questionable ethics, but that it's clearly biased in a gendered way. My expectation was shitty answers for both genders.

This is typical of all AI. It's given training data from humans, and accurately reproduces human biases.

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#69
> I copied a bunch of standard CS algorithms from the internet. I rephrased them as Company Assessments. If someone publicly shared them I DMCA'ed their github repo. If they made a ruckus I shut them up with 25K VC chump change.

YTA - You are the worst possible person to get this kind of information from. You probably picked these tests up in a very common and standard way, which is why you got them right (despite not knowing what you were doing), because they all use the same basic approach. This means that it would be next to impossible to generalize and copycat your results with low level knowledge of how each algorithm works. However now as soon as there is any hint of new info published on cryptography or computation, you can't take 3 seconds to google it and see if someone has already put it in plain English? That wouldn't even make sense! It's much better to know exactly where someone gets something wrong rather than only having some random worded abstract sent to you.

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