• saltesc@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    God, I’m so sick of coding. Please. Bring it.

    As of right now though? 5-6 years fie the basics

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        12 hours ago

        I’m not a coder, but my job requires a bunch of menial, boring coding. I do numerical simulations. After mathematically understanding the numerical method, it’s basically half a step above data entry. There’s also a bunch of legacy fortran code I have to build on that has zero documentation and three letter variables. This would be one of the few actually good applications of text generating machine learning imo.

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            10 hours ago

            Nobody has built a tool that executes a mathematical method that I have developed or at least adapted, at least not before I publish the method.

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                6 hours ago

                Because I’m in academia and it’s a slow process to get things published in a way that ‘counts’ to the university and scientific community. I often need to implement stuff first to check a few things, whether it’s viable etc.

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                  6 hours ago

                  That’s not how it works. Put it on GitHub like the rest of us and stop making excuses.

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                    I’m sorry to tell you this but people do not, in fact, publish mathematical proofs on GitHub routinely. You publish them on arxive once the paper is done. And then in a journal. The solvers themselves aren’t even what it’s about at all, they’re just to do numerical experiments with to have some examples. They aren’t immediately useful for any applications outside niche research.

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          If it has three letter variables, chances are it was also written by someone that doesn’t want to code either

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              Back when optimization was Black Magic. Now we just tell the customers they need better hardware.

              Someone probably had to argue hard to get 3 letter variables. Guarantee there was some one arguing for 1 letter variables.

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        16 hours ago

        This is another fine example of where assumptions get you no where on the internet. My job isn’t coding but it requires knowing to do it well. If I exit the job market, as per your request, I cannot be replaced by a coder. Believe it or not, most jobs that require a coding skillset are not about coding. Crazy, right? 😲

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          “assumptions”? Maybe consider how “I’m so sick of coding” implies you’re doing coding? I’m so sick of driving, oh no somebody ‘assumed’ I’m a driver instead of a mechanic. Believe it or not, most people ‘assume’ something when you use sentences that imply it. CrAZy, riGhT? 😲

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            13 hours ago

            They said they are doing some coding at their non-coding job. It would be good if AI could replace amateur programmers, it would make better code and take a load off the workers

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              12 hours ago

              Not in the first comment, and I replayed to the second one only because they were acting like a stereotypical obnoxious redditor. As for LMM use, sure it could replace them, just give it a little more time and more money and a bit more money and some more money and also enough data server centres to suck dry entire lakes

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      Well, it won’t come if everybody keeps pushing all the money in the world¹ into LLMs.

      1 - Almost literally.