I use ChatGPT (with GPT-4) all the time for coding. I've developed a feel for the maximum complexity it can handle and I break down bigger problems into smaller subtasks and ask it to write code for them (usually one function at a time, after a detailed explanation of the context in the beginning). I need to review and test everything it produces thoroughly but it's worth it. Sometimes it helps me complete tasks that would have otherwise taken a day to complete in 1-2 hours.
I also have Copilot installed but it isn't as useful as ChatGPT. It's nice to get a smart completion sometimes. I'm even in the Copilot Chat beta which uses GPT-4 and I find it inferior to ChatGPT with GPT-4.
I never touch GPT-3.5 anymore. It hallucinates too much and the quality of the output is very unpredictable. I guess most people who say AI is useless for coding haven't tried GPT-4 yet.
Oh, and something else. In my experience, the quality of the output depends a LOT on the prompt. If you give a clear, detailed description of the problem, and try to express your intent instead of the specifics of the implementation, it usually performs very well. I've seen some people at work write the worst, sloppiest prompts and then complain how useless ChatGPT was.
Due for the iPhone is excellent. It's a reminder app that nags you every five minutes until you get The Thing™ done. Before I started using it, I had a problem with forgetting reminders once they appeared. This never happens anymore and I actually manage to get some things done!
An excellent video series by Andrej Karpathy (founding member of OpenAI, then head of AI at Tesla). He teaches how GPTs work from the ground up, using Python. I learned a lot from this course.
This is something I’ve been wondering about for a long time. Programming is an activity that makes you face your own fallibility all the time. You write some code, compile it or run it, and then 80% of the time, it doesn’t work exactly the way you imagined. There’s an error message, or it just behaves incorrectly. Then you...
That may be part of it but I've also observed it among fellow programmers.
You give your opinion about something and your coworker has a smug, arrogant knee-jerk reaction based on some cargo-cult belief without actually thinking about the details of the problem. Then you need to walk them through why what you said is not what they meant step-by-step, and while it may be wrong it is still a valid opinion. If you succeed, they completely change and become cooperative, and you can have an actually useful discussion. But you have to be super patient, like when taming an irritated feral cat that wants to scratch you. If you're good, the cat becomes cuddly and cute.
This works but I'm extremely tired of having to perform this dance with 60% of the new coders I meet.
You're right, they also have to prove their counterarguments, and those who don't do it are often bad programmers. But I've also experienced the same with some actually brilliant people.
I actually welcome constructive criticism, and the brand of arrogance I'm so frustrated with is when people dismiss ideas or arguments without offering valid counterarguments. Or maybe when they take the worst possible interpretation of what someone says (see example above) and argue against that. Maybe my original post wasn't clear enough.
While it's true that separating emotions from the work itself and learning to accept justified criticism is important, even crucial, this fact doesn't give free license to the people giving the criticism to be rude. Your comment seems to imply that what I perceive as arrogance is often justified when "senior devs" are defending their solutions based on their experience. But arrogance != conviction or confidence. Confidence paired with humility allows for open-mindedness, and creates a better environment for everyone involved. It encourages sharing and discussing ideas.
You also state that human emotions don't belong in software development, then proceed to write a long rant that reeks of condescension, dismissiveness, annoyance, frustration and a feeling of superiority. Your comment is by no means neutral and analytical, it just displays emotions you feel are justified, while those felt by others are not. It's hard not to conclude that you are exactly the type of person my original post is about.
I really like jless. You can pipe the JSON output of a cURL command into it and it displays it in a really nice, easy to read way with collapsible arrays and objects.
As someone with ADHD I’ve always had the same problem. I could never solve it entirely, I almost never finish my side projects. These days I just try to embrace it and have fun with my projects, learning what I can from them and then moving on if they aren’t interesting anymore. This has made me a very good generalist and universal problem solver at the company I work for.
I think the main pain point of distro hopping is learning a new package manager, I discovered Nix a while ago, it works on every single OS, has the biggest package repo out there. I replaced Homebrew on my mac with it. If this piques your interest, give it a go. Later, you can integrate with Home-manager to manage all of your...
Are you me? I've also created a new community and made lots of posts and comments today instead of working. I have 20 Lemmy tabs open in my browser, fully hyperfocused on it and other fediverse stuff.
What are some of your recommendations for books, videos, podcasts, or any other media that inspire and spark more passion for programming and computer science in general? I'm interested in hearing how these resources have helped you grow as a programmer.
The videos on The Coding Train YouTube channel reignited my passion for programming about 3 years ago. I was very burnt out and cynical at that time. I highly recommend them, they are all super interesting projects with elegant, minimal code producing highly complicated results, by a wonderfully enthusiastic and silly guy who is impossible not to like.
I don't really like thinking about what to listen to, so I use di.fm (an internet radio for electronic music) and just enjoy the endless stream of music. Some of my favorite channels:
Electro Swing - my absolute favorite, energetic and fast but improves focus
LoFi Hip-Hop - like the popular YouTube mixes but better curated and higher-quality
Liquid DnB - this is the middle ground between relaxing LoFi and energetic "Matrix" style coding music
It was really hard to find music I enjoy but I can also concentrate while listening to it. These 3 channels have been the absolute best for me in this regard. I hope you will like them too.
Unspeakable tokens (www.lesswrong.com)
A deep dive into the inner workings of ChatGPT, and why it stops responding or replies weird or creepy things to seemingly simple requests.
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Neural Networks: Zero To Hero (karpathy.ai)
An excellent video series by Andrej Karpathy (founding member of OpenAI, then head of AI at Tesla). He teaches how GPTs work from the ground up, using Python. I learned a lot from this course.
🌀 Dealing with Nothing in C# - The Null Object Pattern (blog.botond.online)
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This is something I’ve been wondering about for a long time. Programming is an activity that makes you face your own fallibility all the time. You write some code, compile it or run it, and then 80% of the time, it doesn’t work exactly the way you imagined. There’s an error message, or it just behaves incorrectly. Then you...
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How to lose your work using Undo Copy in Windows - mihai.fm (mihai.fm)
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Nix - An universal package manager (nixos.org)
I think the main pain point of distro hopping is learning a new package manager, I discovered Nix a while ago, it works on every single OS, has the biggest package repo out there. I replaced Homebrew on my mac with it. If this piques your interest, give it a go. Later, you can integrate with Home-manager to manage all of your...
I've just created 4 communities on Lemmy instead of starting to study for an important exam in two days. This is a cry for help. But it's also kinda funny. 💀 (lemmy.world)
I put the pro in procrastinator.
Recommendation to get more passion for programming?
What are some of your recommendations for books, videos, podcasts, or any other media that inspire and spark more passion for programming and computer science in general? I'm interested in hearing how these resources have helped you grow as a programmer.
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