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I'm probably a weird outlier. Coming from academia, it's ranging from 1x to infinity-x (as in, certain tasks wouldn't even be touched if not for AI).

For stuff that I'm used to (R) I can write nice and compact spaghetti (long %>% pipes). I'm not comfortable when a working script doesn't fit the screen (plus a few scrolls max). My style is probably easy only to me. When I teach, I don't teach it in particular.

AI gives me thousands of lines of codes for those. 10k once. It's cool if it suffices to source it all, but working with that is not pleasant.

But if I can reproduce a paper in a one-shot (it used to be an hour, but recently it got so much better), that's a task that would not have been even attempted years ago. And I'm talking about a methods paper with no available Github (or, as often happens, when the existing Github is useless)

parent 5555watch 3 months ago

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