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Re:Competitive Programming with AlphaCode by falcor84 on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @03:16PM (#30183378)
How long before the typical human coder can do so?
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Re:Competitive Programming with AlphaCode by pkaye on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @03:52PM (#30183907)
Are you saying you cannot write code from scratch?
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Re:Competitive Programming with AlphaCode by sheikheddy on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @05:03PM (#30184707)
Not the parent comment, but I cannot code from scratch (outside of very simple and small applications). Competitive Programming is at about the limit of what I can do without looking things up, and only because I've had practice specifically for that kind of artificial environment.
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Re:Competitive Programming with AlphaCode by falcor84 on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @05:08PM (#30184766)
I can write some code from scratch, but my ability to write code is improved by an order of magnitude when I can refer to online resources, including example code.
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