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Comment · 2 months ago
yes but last year it was between 20 and 80 percent, point being talk to me in 10 years and all errors around router behaviour will be completely missing from AI teaching tools
Comment · 2 months ago
Why would most people want to learn how a router works? It's the end goal that the vast majority of users want - i don't want to learn about routing tables, I just want to expose a port for plex, etc. Also, I could have AI craft a fascinating and engaging way of teaching router setup that actually helps me learn instead of wasting time searching through random forums form google results
Comment · 2 months ago
no, no, no. you are supposed to romanticize the hunt for correct information /s
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
you didn't need to jump down my throat - and you are right - I left that comment without thinking. I was just saying that some mysterious old archaic programming paradigms can be demystified with the help of AI, especially the max power ones
Comment · 2 months ago
im familiar with bugs i am an a qa engineer i am just saying, like fortran, the mysteries of old programs and old programming paradigms can be demystified with AI
Comment · 2 months ago
not to be that guy but I have faith a powerful AI could understand all the ins and outs of the voyager code no matter what language
Comment · 3 months ago
I've found I don't like marking up books, because what was highly insightful and revelatory on the first read, seems obvious and boring on the second read
Comment · 3 months ago
yea it's like when someone is a really good liar - some skills you shouldn't want to have. Being insanely sure of the history of the universe when you have incredibly scant information, is surely not a good thing, unless you need to use it to survive through an illogical and chaotic world
Comment · 3 months ago
I feel that looking for God is spiritual but saying you've already found Him, know Him, know His kids, etc - that is religious
Comment · 3 months ago
that is so true in fact I have only heard a few people say that actually, most say it more in theory than practice. Because in practice I have always been asked to solve pretty simple and boring problems far removed from the Dijkstra algorithms i did in college. i never used a graph data structure in my entire life lol
Comment · 3 months ago
the people I know who hate AI have a bizarre and unrelatable love for the pure math aspect of software engineering - the elegant software architecture, the efficient programming languages. the people who only care about getting stuff done are loving AI but people who spent their life learning how to properly craft high quality software are weeping - as they should be - now they know how kasparov felt
Comment · 3 months ago
this reminds me of the old IBM tabulation machines that were sold in 2 different models at different prices, the cheaper one just had a metal tab inserted to limit the processing speed - you could remove the tab to unlock full speed
Comment · 3 months ago
yes I have hypothesized this as well - if you ask rudely on StackOverflow you will get bad or even misleading answers - but if you ask nicely you will more likely be given good information.

It could stand to reason that if you are nice to the AI, you will get a response that is trained on all of the nice responses and be higher quality.

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