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598 sats \ 10 replies \ @elvismercury 2 Jan \ parent \ on: LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024 tech

This has been my experience too. When I read the "contrarian" takes from folks about how AI is hype I just shake my head and know that that's a person who has a) no actual experience messing around with the tech, b) no imagination, or c) both.

1356 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 2 Jan

I had a friend recently say, "it makes me, maybe, 50% more productive but it's not that big of a deal." I just laughed.

I think the "AI is hype" crowd are debating the proximity of the singularity as if they are worthy of debating it.

602 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 2 Jan

Ha! And I bet your friend was already a pretty adept dev. For someone like me, who's been out of the game for a decade, it is a fucking godsend -- 10x, for real, no lie, no exaggeration. I imagine that will asymptote as I stay in the game, but son of a bitch, it's science fiction and people are blase about it.

To say nothing of the other ways that I use it that are basically infinitely better because they are taking the place of nothing. But whatevs, I'm happy if fewer people are competing with me becoming even better at the things that I'm already good at. I'll eat that pie, too :)

100 sats \ 4 replies \ @south_korea_ln 2 Jan

Thanks for the big zap, anon.

It is true somehow that it cannot (at this point) replace your existing skills. But it can amplify them, a lot. So for someone who never coded, it's not like it's going to code for you. You need to know what to ask for. The best ChatGPT prompt engineers (sic) are the ones who know how to talk very clearly and precisely to a human. If you know how to do that, ChatGPT will give you the best answers.

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 2 Jan freebie

The best ChatGPT prompt engineers (sic) are the ones who know how to talk very clearly and precisely to a human. If you know how to do that, ChatGPT will give you the best answers.

Very much yes to this. AI will create new jobs (prompt engineers for example) and make other jobs obsolete. You need to a) adapt to technology or b) be old enough that people don't mind that you don't adapt or c) become obsolete.

As has always been the case with (disruptive) technologies afaik.

Btw, I think there is a typo in what I quoted:

who know how to talk very clearly and precisely to a ~~human~~ GPT/LLM.

still getting confused when to say GPT and when to say LLM.

823 sats \ 2 replies \ @south_korea_ln 2 Jan

Actually, i did mean to write human. Don't remember where I read it, but one of the LLM developers said that the best prompt engineers are the ones that can communicate very effectively with humans. If you know how to clearly talk to a fellow researcher, with attention to detail, in a structured manner, you'll be very good at talking to that machine too. The other way around, learning how to make good prompts to talk to an LLM will make you better at communicating with people.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 2 Jan

Ohh, interesting! Obviously, I didn't know that since I thought it was just a typo, lol

571 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 2 Jan

I wasn't very clear then... I won't be hired as an expert prompt engineer now ;)

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @TheWildHustle 2 Jan

A stacker once told me that ai was digital communism. I've been using it for coding/command line help.....its pretty useful.

And shoutout to perplexity.ai, they give citations and links to where it found the information.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 2 Jan freebie

A stacker once told me that ai was digital communism

You can mention @DarthCoin, he's not Bloody Mary afaik.