We are getting closer and closer to that. For a while llm assistants were not all that useful on larger projects because they had limited context. That context has increased a lot over the last 6 months. Some tools will even analysis your entire codebase and use that in responses.
It is frustrating that any smaller tool or api seem to stump llms currently but it seems like context is the main thing that is missing and that is increasing more and more.
That post is the best summary I've seen of what happened in LLMs last year, but what's crazy is that it feels like you wrote it so long ago, and it's only been four weeks! So much has changed since then!
Mainly DeepSeek, but also the fallout: a trillion-dollar drop in US stock markets, the new vaporware Qwen that beats DeepSeek, the apparent discrediting of US export controls, OpenAI Operator, etc.
"- Delete the browser from the phone."
This is hard because the browser has other uses. I've found similar results by just signing out of any social media accounts on my phone.
Reddit is useable without being signed in, but just barely. It's certainly not as addicting as it is with an account. Twitter doesnt let me see anything without an account. Same with TikTok. I went ahead and deleted my accounts entirely but you can also just make the password hard to type and remove it from any password managers so its difficult to sign in.
This has pretty much cut my Reddit time from an hour+ a day into 5-10 minutes a day.
If a significant number of users were to join another foreign-owned platform with similar issues, it is likely that such platform would be banned as well, if it is not already banned under FACAA.
TikTok is an issue in large part due to its popularity.
This is more of an early career engineer thing than a ChatGPT thing. 'I don't know, I found it on stackoverflow' could have easily been the answer for the last ten years.
That's where you'd like your solution engine to be able to tell you how to get the solution it is giving you. Something good answers on Stack Overflow will do: links to the relevant documentation, steps you can go through to get a better diagnostic of your problem etc.
Get the fire lit with the explanation of where to get wood and how to light it in your condition so next time you don't need to consult you solution engine.
No, a real engineer goes on SO to understand. A junior goes on SO to copy and paste. If your answer is "I don't know I just copied" you're not doing any engineering and it's awful to pretend you are. Our job is literally about asking "why" and "how" until we don't need to anymore because our pattern matching skills allow us to generalize.
At this point in my career I rarely ever go to SO, and when I do it's because of some obscure thing that 7 other people came across and decided to post a question about. Or to look up "how to do the most basic shit in language I am not familiar with", but that role was taken over by LLMs.
There's nothing inherently wrong with getting help from either and LLM, or StackOverflow, it's the "I don't know' part that bothers me.
One the funnier reactions to "I got it from StackOverflow" is the followup question "From the question or the answers?"
If you just adds code, without understanding how it works, regardless of where it came from and potential licensing issues, then I question your view on programming. If I have a paint come in and paint my house and get paint all over the place, floors, windows, electrical socket but still get the walls the color I want, then I wouldn't consider that person a professional painter.
The LLM also tends to do a good bit of the integrations of the code in your codebase. With SO you need to do it yourself, so you at least need to understand the outer boundary of the code. And on StackOverflow it often has undergone some form of peer review. The LLM just outputs without any bias or footnote.
Ha. Since when does Nintendo care about ensuring functionality they add to their devices are leveraged? Other than first party games, and even that can be limited, almost no one ever implements the weird little functionality they add to their devices.
Not just Nintendo. The PlayStation 4 controller had that touchpad in the middle that also clicked in to act as a button. I played a lot of games that used it as a button (usually to open a map, or something) and don't remember a single game that used it as a touchpad.
Microsoft is somewhat to blame for new controller features being underutilized because they're extremely reluctant to add anything to the Xbox controller. Motion control in particular stands out, the hardware isn't expensive and it's proven to be very useful in some types of game, but the lowest common denominator Xbox controller still doesn't have it so multi-platform games can't be designed around it. Especially multiplayer games with crossplay since you can't let some players have more precise inputs than others.
Yup. Used to do sales. People are make way better decisions async (over email) than in person or on a call. People feel pressure to say yes in the moment and then the cost of later saying no is much greater than it would have been to say no over email.
The stress and all the negatives people are posting about here is the point.
Before you demonize any company doing this... Know just about every company with a product has a sales team of some kind and they are all operating with similar models. You are being annoyed by some sales people while the sales people at your company are annoying someone else.
To be fair… Your example is a bit off. If you want to make the odd comparison, it is more like carrying a replica civil war long gun around while in civil war reenactment attire and wearing a sign that says, "On my way to a civil war reenactment, this is a fake gun and uniform" which you have done every day for years.
+1 here. I have two resumes. One looks nice/modern and its what I send recruiters/managers once I have an interview scheduled. One is an ugly, to me, plain looking word doc that application tracking systems can gronk.
It is frustrating that any smaller tool or api seem to stump llms currently but it seems like context is the main thing that is missing and that is increasing more and more.
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