Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table

Re:Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents N... by netdevphoenix on Monday March 17, 2025 @12:56PM (#43390473)

Because SO at least requires you to THINK a little about what do you have a problem with.

With LLMs, you don't even need that. Just copy paste the error and you get a response. Copy and paste the Jira ticket description and you get a response. This wasn't possible with SO. Yes, none of those will likely work straight away but the point is that less thinking is required.

Hopefully, the junior's code will be reviewed before it gets merged

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Re:Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents N... by ForTheKidz on Monday March 17, 2025 @01:14PM (#43390638)

I can't imagine blindly committing what LLMs spit out will get you very far, much less into a job.

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Re:Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents N... by lodovic on Monday March 17, 2025 @02:34PM (#43391432)

It's quite fashionable, people call it "vibe coding" with Cursor in "yolo mode"

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Re:Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents N... by IshKebab on Monday March 17, 2025 @02:59PM (#43391700)

I don't think LLMs are actually good enough for their code to work without any changes in all but the very simplest of cases.

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