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Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @06:41PM (#42001308)
> "pointless algorithmic exercise that will only show you if the candidate recently worked on a similar question".

I've been able to write one, not from memory but from first principles, any time in the last 40 years.

Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by senko on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @07:03PM (#42001502)
Curious, I would expect a programmer of your age to remember Knuth's "beware of the bugs in above code, I have only proven it's correct but haven't actually run it".

I'm happy you know math, but my point before this thread got derailed was that we're holding (coding) AI to a higher standard than actual humans, namely to expect to write bug-free code.

Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by Jensson on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @11:53PM (#42003330)
Humans can actually run the code and knows what it should output. the LLM can't, and putting it in a loop against code output doesn't work well either since the LLM can't navigate that well.
Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by smrq on Thursday October 31, 2024 @12:47AM (#42003595)
I hold myself to a higher standard than AI tools are capable of, from my experience. (Maybe some people don't, and that's where the disconnect is between the apologists and the naysayers?)
Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by 0points on Thursday October 31, 2024 @04:48AM (#42004674)
> my point before this thread got derailed was that we're holding (coding) AI to a higher standard than actual humans, namely to expect to write bug-free code

This seems like a very layman attitude and I would be surprised to find many devs adhering to this idea. Comments in this thread alone suggests that many devs on HN do not agree.