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Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by jb1991 on Thursday October 31, 2024 @10:12AM (#42007119)
Long before this current AI hype cycle, we’ve had excellent code completion in editors for decades. So I guess by that definition, we’ve all been writing AI assisted code for a very long time.
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Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by fhd2 on Thursday October 31, 2024 @10:23AM (#42007215)
I'd say so, and it's a bit misleading to leave that out. Code generation is almost as old as computing. So far, most of it happened to be deterministic.
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Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by player1234 on Friday November 01, 2024 @06:36AM (#42015608)
Yeah but it didn't cost trillions and needed its own nuclear power plant. Noone disputes that llm/ai is cool/can be helpful but at what cost, where is the roi?
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