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Re:AI Does Not Help Programmers by dinvlad on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @11:39AM (#36214510)
OK let’s say if I don’t, how can I make sure what I get is correct, even after a few iterations?
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Re:AI Does Not Help Programmers by hxugufjfjf on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @04:17PM (#36218545)
You ask it to explain its reasoning step by step. This has also proven to yield more accurate results. Look into Chain of Thought
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Re:AI Does Not Help Programmers by dinvlad on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @12:29AM (#36222839)
It’s not very good at explaining stuff though. One example: ask it to explain a subtle joke, and it will keep failing in funny ways.

This is not surprising though, as these kinds of models (LLMs) were specifically optimized for generation, not explanation.

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Re:AI Does Not Help Programmers by hxugufjfjf on Thursday June 08, 2023 @12:35PM (#36244670)
It's extremely good at explaining technical things like solving programming problems.
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