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New comment by tgraf_80 in "Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools"

tgraf_80 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:42:51 +0000

Truly speaking, you can use AI for a little bit higher abstraction and ambiguity, but not much. For instance, if you need an iteration over an array and you want to do a very specific aggregation you can instruct AI to write this loop but you yourself need to understand exactly what it’s doing and have a very clear idea how this code snippet fits into the larger picture

New comment by tgraf_80 in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

tgraf_80 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 09:02:26 +0000

If the last sentence had been: Probably I will never figure that out. Then I would have said that you are on the right track.

New comment by tgraf_80 in "My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash (2010)"

tgraf_80 — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 13:29:05 +0000

it's a way to express steps in a continuum (given by the context): - not close (1) - close (2) - very close (3) - arrived (4) That's how language works. It's not mathematics and uses "salt and pepper" to convey the message as accurately as possible.

New comment by tgraf_80 in "My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash (2010)"

tgraf_80 — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 11:46:14 +0000

Good intentions, indeed. Creating lots of steering committee slides, I know about the wish from the audience of a simpler language. But ‘very close’ is different from ‘close’. It’s not just salt and pepper but trying to articulate a complex and nuanced reality. And yes, research papers then sound a bit less solid and complete- sorry, but often this is the reality you should not hide.