I remember for my senior project in college having done so much work that documenting it at the end resulted in like 30 pages. That was without stetching it. I didn’t want to spend any more time than necessary at that point. Kids these days…
Oh almost certainly the point is just to have used AI. Theyre accelerating into popping the bubble. The tokens are starting to get priced more realisticly and there’s no way folks built things that financially make sense long term. Everyone is just being pushed to use it more to make more slop.
They can charge for the placement, or prioritize sponsored listing like they do for search results. So theyd make money on the feature, instead of spending money.
It should be fairly straight forward to check the state of a listing and ensure it hasn’t changed since it was evaluated for this purpose.
How is this better than accomplishing the same general suggestion, but with real products? How could this possibly be cost effective?
Thats the goal? And you guys are like 20% there? Or you are only accepting AI code?
I guess im saying im optimistic things will swing the other way, and the fallout will hurt like savings and loan or the housing crash, but people can still find a way i think to build new things that are more sustainable and more ethical and restrict the harmful stuff. AI is a wide field. Of course it the landscape is horrifying now, im just trying to do what I can to stay positive.
What’s the use case for this code? Im wondering if there’s a particular industry trying to use AI this way or just your workplace.
I think of a state machine as a hardware concept, not software. If all these conditions, transition to state 21. Then do a thing, if these conditions, transition to 38.
In my field its common for my colleagues to not have enough experience outside of their role to provide the feedback im looking for. They help in conversation for sure, but the wide knowledge base that is available through AI is my biggest win.
That and I cant over utilize it (well at least as a rubber duck). I can bug my colleagues too much and get in their way if im too talkative.
A loop and a data structure to hold the result of parsing. The data structure will have a state you can interrogate. No need to build a state machine to explicitly name each way the parsing can develop.
I wouldn’t call what im doing vibe coding, would you?
Ill also say, who cares if it reads or writes? The point is it makes me more effective at my job, the fact it is presented as a conversation as opposed to another format is an implementation detail not a critical feature.
I can only say I find it useful for coding, and its way faster to ask it questions instead of searching documentation. It can read the code base, and explain it to me instead of me trying to understand the cryptic 2 and 3 letter variable names the last a hole used, in their 57 state state machine, all states just numbered, no names (why a state machine in python? Some people…) Then when I want to change something in the code that is substantial, I can ask it to write a draft that I then refine, saving keystrokes on boiler plate. It can suggest data structures and algorithms I’ve not yet used or heard of, and then I can learn about them, making me smarter as well.
I did this all on my own before with a lot of grep and find commands, reading python/perl/c++/tcl/git/cvs documentation. Then tracking down someone to explain the piece Im not understanding. It turns a few weeks worth of hard effort into a relaxed few days of feeling more productive.
Even just linting, I can ask it, why is this function not giving me the expected outcome (in terms that simple), and it finds the 1 off error faster than me, like in 5 sec in 500 lines of code.
Its like having someone with perfect recall that has read all of the code base, and all comp science info on the web, sitting next to me. Its not a great coder, but I can get the information i need to be the good coder I am faster than google and grep. Not using it now is like insisting that O’Reilly books (which i have read for fun in the past) are better than searching the online docs or google.
I work for a tech company that has an AI product (that i use and find valuable), and the execs are talking about investing more in their employees, not less. You’ll never guess which. Not all AI companies are trying to automate the whole company. If you have these personnel assets, throwing that away is short sighted. You should be able to run circles around people downsizing if you just empower your employees to use AI when it actually does make sense.
Im convinced AI is like the dot com bubble, not all offerings are worth what we are being told, but for some things its the only way that makes sense anymore. By 2030, this will settle into a new normal where these laid off employees will find work in related areas that weren’t possible before, and the companies that overvalued AI will take a hit.
Edit: if you downvote can you say why? Im no AI stan, I think its being mishandled all over, but I do see a few valid use cases. Id like to know if im missing something, or if people are just sick of hearing people talk about AI.
Hey, if you can just hang on a Friday night and it doesnt affect your daily life, Im the last person to say you shouldn’t do you.
I cant just do a Friday. It leads to Saturday, then next week, and month later I cant get anything else done but get high. Im at the end of the progression. There is no just enjoying an evening for me anymore. Next time I pick up, l die. Last time I almost did.
Addiction, aside from physical addiction and withdrawal, isnt dependant on continued use of the same substance. If you feel the need (even if you dont give in every time) to alter your state of being everyday, then you are likely an addict. Its an obsession with finding and getting a means to escape reality.
Usually people will settle on one or two things that are easy to get or provide the desired effect, even when effort is made. Its not something you can control, definitionally. If you can just put it down for a year and dont miss it, then ill concede you are maybe not yet an addict, but daily use of anything points to a reluctance to stop.
Im a fan of the local teams rival. Thats where I grew up, and my son is a fan of the rival too. This is birthright right.
Sports are supposed to be how we compete physically without war. Iroquois lacrosse comes to mind.
If someone booed at my funeral, they were a friend that knew I loved the game like they do.
AI psychosis is a thing.