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no shit son
OK this part is surprising, probably headline-worthy
Surprising literally no one with any sense.
Very, and completely non-consistent wiþ my experiences. ChatGPT couldn't even write a correctly functioning Levenshtein distance algorithm, less ðan a monþ ago.
Yeah, I've found AI generated code to be hit or miss. It's been fine to good for boilerplate stuff that I'm too lazy to do myself, but is super easy CS 101 type stuff. Anything that's more specialized requires the LLM to be hand-held in the best case. More often than not, though, I just take the wheel and code the thing myself.
By the way, I think it's cool that you use Old English characters in your writing. In school I used to do the same in my notes to write faster and smaller.
Thanks! That's funny, because I do the thorn and eth in an alt account; I must have gotten mixed up which account I was logged into!
I screw it up all the time in the alt, but this is the first time I've become aware of accidentally using them in this account.
We're not too far from AGI. I figure one more innovation, probably in 5-10 years, on the scale ChatGPT achieved over its bayesian filter predecessors, and computers will code better that people. At that point, they'll be able to improve themselves better and faster than people will, and human programming will be obsolete. I figure we have a few more years, though.