so no. Before llms came around, lots of people were hobby programmers. We learned. Sorry to be blunt, but being a hobbyist is not an excuse. The best programmers I know are hobbyists
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vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deto Privacy@lemmy.ml•[ANSWERED] Should i use KeePass* instead of Proton Pass, for privacy?8·1 day agoyou should own your data. So yes
by “completing it” do you mean having something that seems like it works? Or something that you know works? If it’s the former then you’ve just had the computer do the easy part (creating something) and skipped the actually hard part (making it robust).
Are errors handled properly, is all input being validated? If using https, are you actually verifying certificates? This sort of thing
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deto Android@lemdro.id•Google launches Extended Repair Program for Pixel 7a batteryEnglish1·2 days agobully for you :)
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deto World News@lemmy.world•Most people in France, Germany, Italy and Spain would support UK rejoining EU, poll findsEnglish561·2 days agoI would support them joining. But of course no fucking tantrums will be tolerated. You will abide by the same rules as everyone else.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deto Android@lemdro.id•Google launches Extended Repair Program for Pixel 7a batteryEnglish2·2 days agoDon’t. It’s a horrible overheating piece of crap. I literally cannot shoot more than about 3 minutes of video with the flash turned on (at 1080p, not 4k, and not encoding as hevc either). The phone overheats and turns off the flash.
Keeping the phone in my pocket, out of direct sunlight in my car? I see the “3d buildings have been disabled because your phone needs to cool down” every single day. And I live in Malta; in the summer it’s a 20 minute trip, at most.
And even then, the battery life sucks anyway.
Android 16 is buggy af too, though that’s not specific to the 7a.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process (Edit: Not anymore, it’s fixed now)26·2 days agooh for fuck’s sake. A mistake is rendering the wrong emoji. Sending your password to elsewhere is inexcusable
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deto Technology@lemmy.world•AI slows down some experienced software developers, study findsEnglish11·2 days agoand the only reason it’s not slowing you down on other things is that you don’t know enough about those other things to recognize all the stuff you need to fix
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deto Linux@lemmy.ml•Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening & why it could fail.45·4 days agothese types of laws usually come from the most technically illiterate people ever
yes, but that doesn’t help if the software refuses to run on modern java
i wasn’t born yet. I don’t even think half of me was in my dad’s balls yet
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google ChromeEnglish141·5 days agofunny how everyone who wants to write a new browser (except the ladybird guys) always skimp on writing the actual browser part
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Large Language Model Performance Doubles Every 7 MonthsEnglish2·9 days agoin yes/no type questions, 50% success rate is the absolute worst one can do. Any worse and you’re just giving an inverted correct answer more than half the time
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Large Language Model Performance Doubles Every 7 MonthsEnglish2·9 days agothey are improving at an exponential rate. It’s just that the exponent is less than one.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What computer life hacks are your most used?12·10 days agoif you’re concerned about how much you need to move your hand, then you’ll probably love (neo)vim
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deto World News@lemmy.world•It’s too easy to make AI chatbots lie about health information, study findsEnglish1·11 days agotheoretically, they wouldn’t, and yes, that is how it works. The math says so.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deto World News@lemmy.world•It’s too easy to make AI chatbots lie about health information, study findsEnglish1·12 days agoopposite or not, they are both tasks that the fixed-matrix-multiplications can utterly fail at. It’s not a regulation thing. It’s a math thing: this cannot possibly work.
If you could get the checker to be correct all of the time, then you could just do that on the model it’s “checking” because it is literally the same thing, with the same failure modes, and the same lack of any real authority in anything it spits
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Copilot joins ChatGPT at the feet of the mighty Atari 2600 Video ChessEnglish136·12 days agoso? It was never advertised as intelligent and capable of solving any task other than that one.
Meanwhile slop generators are capable of doing a lot of things and reasoning.
One claims to be good at chess. The other claims to be good at everything.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deto World News@lemmy.world•It’s too easy to make AI chatbots lie about health information, study findsEnglish2·12 days agohow does that stop the checker model from “hallucinating” a “yep, this is fine” when it should have said “nah, this is wrong”
this isn’t low effort. These are freaking great!