if it’s something that requires multiple prompts to get right

that’s almost always the case. it’s so dumb how all these AI critics are like “well it didn’t do everything right the first time, therefore LLMs are garbage.” ffs just have some patience, it only takes a few more prompts most of the time

whenever people say “try asking it to do THIS!” they’re usually talking about something the AI doesn’t get right after one prompt. just prompt it long enough and it’ll work

“billionaires need to pay WAY more in taxes, right? i mean, even if they get taxed a few extra billion they’ll still have more money than god”

“sounds fair…”

“and you want strong unions, right? that’s the only way to keep your bosses from replacing you all with AI”

“hell yeah!”

"and let’s raise the minumum wage! damn thing hasn’t gone up in forever, how bout $20 an hour? "

“sign me up!”

“always nice to talk to a fellow socialist!”

“…”

i’m replying from my inbox so i don’t kn ow what you’re talking about

based on your complaints about LLMs, it sounds like you’ve just convinced yourself that anything you code is better than what an LLM would do. you sound like a major narcissist, and i’m going to run my mental health diagnosis bot on your publicly available comment history.

except you ARE getting an explanation. it doesn’t matter that the AI doesn’t know what it’s doing. do YOU know what you’re doing? do you have any idea how your brain puts words together to form phrases and sentences? of course you don’t

well you’re supposed to use it do do things you don’t know how to do. that’s what i do. it’s just that there’s all kinds of shit i don’t know how to do that other people know how to do, and the agent is trained on all that, so it’s helpful (for me, at least)

well maybe russia can get the fuck out of ukraine so it can look for all the shit it’s lost, idk maybe it’s all in fucking belgium or something yeah, russia, just fuck off to belgium for a while, all your shit is over there

i’ve seen how ridiculously complicated and unreadable regex can get. i’ve never asked it to make a regex like that, i’ve only had it do simpler ones like “match every word boundary that starts with some character” or whatever

i think the AI is programmed to tolerate your insults. don’t want an agent that refuses to work with you because it’s robotriggered

it’s a shell function. the code should work for bash or zsh. with those, it doesn’t look like there are any parameters in function definitons, but there are.

for regex i just use regex playground. but the few times i’ve asked the bot for a regex it got it right…mostly. so yeah, it’s not the only source you want to use

you’re right, we DO use it very differently. i use it to code things i don’t know how to code. but my ideas aren’t that original, so it always produces a working product as long as a reprompt it enough. your work involves something that hasn’t really been thought of yet, so i can see why AI wouldn’t do anything

that’s how it usually works. unless you use an AI, then it’s right after one or two reprompts. but you don’t get any of the satisfaction and you feel like a cheater.

i haven’t had a beer in almost a month. gonna pick up a few later to celebrate getting the fuck out of the psych ward (DW i didn’t pull the fire alarm and escape amidst the chaos, they let me out)

it was a good line up until the “i’ll see myself out” line. makes it sound like you’re embarrassed for making an attempt at a pun. same thing with “i’ll be here all week, folks, try the duck”

if i use AI to help me make a full stack app, for example, the learning experience wouldn’t nearly be as good as if i did it all on my own. but when i try to do everything by myself, i get lost and confused as fuck and eventually just abandon it out of frustration and move on to something else. i don’t get paid to do this so i have the luxury of just abandoning shit that gets too frustrating

programming either makes you feel like a genius (when shit finally works) or a complete moron (when it doesn’t). it’s usually the latter :(

exactly. ppl are like “AI can’t teach you anything” and i’m like “well if you make zero effort to learn, you won’t learn from humans either”

lmao…if it doesn’t work just add a comment that makes it as explicit as possible