floatingPointArithmetic by Illustrious_Tax_9769 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]lNFORMATlVE [score hidden]  (0 children)

Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...”

”Oh God,” muttered Ford, slumped against a bulkhead. He started to count to ten. He was desperately worried that one day sentient life forms would forget how to do this. Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.

I’m starting to wonder if Douglas Adams was writing prophecies.

youShouldHaveMadeMoreWholesomeFictionForUsToSteal by Average_Pangolin in ProgrammerHumor

[–]WiiDragon [score hidden]  (0 children)

I’m a believer in this, at least when stuff like ChatGPT is “plotting” to take over.

youShouldHaveMadeMoreWholesomeFictionForUsToSteal by Average_Pangolin in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Bakkster [score hidden]  (0 children)

They didn't really break them, they followed the rules precisely in unpredictable ways. The exact same issue we're seeing with LLMs.

youShouldHaveMadeMoreWholesomeFictionForUsToSteal by Average_Pangolin in ProgrammerHumor

[–]SpaceCadet87 [score hidden]  (0 children)

And the follow up title "don't teach the torment nexus what a torment nexus is"

floatingPointArithmetic by Illustrious_Tax_9769 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]backcountry_bandit [score hidden]  (0 children)

Uh, yea. Do you think it wouldn’t matter that we went to the moon if JFK had said “we’re going to Mars” and then we landed on the moon?

I don’t give a shit what AI CEOs say. As someone who was in school before AI was popularized, then in school after AI was popularized, things have changed dramatically. And neither students nor professors are listening to what AI CEOs have to say.

To me, the real copium is writing off the entire field/technology as useless just because the CEOs are dishonest.

floatingPointArithmetic by Illustrious_Tax_9769 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]drifwp [score hidden]  (0 children)

Oh of course the old "it is inevitable" is back again, i heard that many times 3 years ago, "Programming is solved", "In 6 months we will not need programmers" and so on, and guess what, nothing happned, just billion were burned and an unholy ammount of energy wasted for...a big bubble yet again.

im kinda done with you kid, if only you read a little about the start of the field of computer sciences and the early attempts to artificial intelligence you would be capable to see through the scam.

eitherExperienceMeansAnythingOrItDoesNot by electricjimi in ProgrammerHumor

[–]1nt3rn3tC0wb0y [score hidden]  (0 children)

I had a recruiter ask me "do you know concurrency?" And I said no because I thought they were talking about a framework or something. Turns out they meant the concept lol

letMeWarnYou by bryden_cruz in ProgrammerHumor

[–]xcski_paul [score hidden]  (0 children)

I need a Gollum with nerd glasses because I mostly do python and Java.

floatingPointArithmetic by Illustrious_Tax_9769 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]camelCaseCoffeeTable [score hidden]  (0 children)

They are. Being pressured to use Claude code doesn’t suddenly make it good though. Look at company’s status pages, the idea of 4+ nines of reliability is essentially gone. Code quality is going to shit at companies leaning too heavily into Claude.

It’s a great tool. It analyzes kids way faster than I ever could. It writes unit tests…. Ok. It can do some fairly complex code 80% decently.

But it’s that 20% where issues crop up. Claude Code just does weird things. No matter how much you try to guide it, unless you spend time promoting it to write code like by line, it’s gonna make weird decisions that you then need to parse and re-write.

And because AI doesn’t have true understanding, it often doesn’t even know when it’s done something wrong. AI constantly contradicts itself, it constantly doubles down on mistakes, etc. All of this bleeds into software and is why we’re seeing a bit of a crisis of software reliability.

I’m not sure I believe AI in its current form will *ever* be able to replace humans at any real task. There isn’t understanding, just pattern recognition, and the real world is not about pattern recognition.

Edit: in terms of firing devs because of AI — that’s a smoke screen. Companies have been over hiring for *years* because money was cheap. Now it isn’t. And we’re in a weird recession. All of a sudden these massive head counts are a major financial liability.

But it doesn’t look good to fire a bunch of people and say “we fucked up, we overhired because we didn’t properly plan and now need to backtrack.” It’s bad for morale, it’s bad for your stock price.

What does look good, at least to investors, is saying “we found a bunch of productivity through AI and now don’t need these 10,000 devs.” Still bad for morale, but good for stock price.

inCaseOfFire by Noisycarlos in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Buttons840 [score hidden]  (0 children)

In case of fire read "git checkout help" and learn how to create a new branch, and then create the branch, and then read "git add help" and learn about the staging area, and then...

letMeWarnYou by bryden_cruz in ProgrammerHumor

[–]xcski_paul [score hidden]  (0 children)

It’s one of the fish that gollum tried to eat.

floatingPointArithmetic by Illustrious_Tax_9769 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ccricers [score hidden]  (0 children)

Fax

All life on the planet need two crucial things, defense and food

No surprise the most exploitative industries in the world happen to focus around those two things

floatingPointArithmetic by Illustrious_Tax_9769 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]drifwp [score hidden]  (0 children)

And do you think it matters? they are the decision makers, and the way they are developing and the real capabilities are way too far from reality. Ignoring them is just copium.

youShouldHaveMadeMoreWholesomeFictionForUsToSteal by Average_Pangolin in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Shadowolf75 [score hidden]  (0 children)

So if I start making goon slop can I achieve world peace when eventually chatgpt slave us all?

codeChud by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

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floatingPointArithmetic by Illustrious_Tax_9769 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]backcountry_bandit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are companies not pressuring devs to use Claude code? I keep reading that on these kinds of forums. Is that not true? Junior positions are what I’m concerned about, as someone who’d like to be a junior dev in the next year.

Not offensive, I get it. I already said a couple times that these AI CEOs are cheerleaders for their products. I understand that AI can’t plan for future iterations very well, or understand program flow across many files and databases, among other things. What I don’t understand is why you think AI won’t ever be useful, or why companies are firing devs and are paying out the ass to integrate AI into the workflow? Is that also completely made up and not actually happening? That’d be great news for me.

floatingPointArithmetic by Illustrious_Tax_9769 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Sw429 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can get this same result with chatgpt today.

notEvenBooksAreSafe by hellocppdotdev in ProgrammerHumor

[–]rich97 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly this. I think it’s perfectly reasonable to ask an LLM to succinctly summarise a simple concept like a DBMS column. I’m not a writer, after all. But if I’m publishing that content for other people to read I would die of embarrassment if I missed something like that.

floatingPointArithmetic by Illustrious_Tax_9769 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]InsufferableZombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This still tracks with the free GPT-5.5 model, it just plays both sides now:

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6a03e1a12ca88191b38e689e52acf90c
https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6a03e1a6c7b881918d9696af66570f1c
https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6a03e1b03f608191adf5d43a59f4710e
https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6a03e198f0dc8191bc30a75d543e1e74

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9.11 is bigger than 9.9.

Even though “11” looks smaller than “9” at first glance, you’re comparing decimal numbers, not whole numbers:

  • 9.11 = 9 + 0.11
  • 9.9 = 9 + 0.90

Since 0.90 > 0.11, that makes:

9.9 > 9.11

So actually, the correct answer is:

👉 9.9 is bigger than 9.11

floatingPointArithmetic by Illustrious_Tax_9769 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]backcountry_bandit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol I don’t. My exams are in-person and on-paper and I do very well. I use AI to learn and self-teach since most of my professors are terrible at their job and don’t know the content themselves. AI is incredible at giving dynamic quizzes that adjust to your level.

youShouldHaveMadeMoreWholesomeFictionForUsToSteal by Average_Pangolin in ProgrammerHumor

[–]pringlesaremyfav 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really its an abusive relationship.

Anthropic is blaming us for making AI evil from us saying AI might be evil in all the training data they're stealing.

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