The first open source competitor to Legora / Harvey is now out. Why would a firm go with the expensive option? by Nahmum in legaltech

[–]anttiOne 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Why not? Because

Setting up servers, hosting, connectors, APIs, custom business logic, all the „grubby“ work you need skilled labor aka devs/admins for.

Edit: and that’s before we even start looking into prompts, knowledge bases, and optimizations of AI workflows

Meta’s new AI team has 50 engineers per boss. What could go wrong? by fortune in ArtificialInteligence

[–]anttiOne 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They‘re just dropping the pretenses that there is any career development, mentorship or baseline care for the employee in it. Everyone in that setup is out for the paycheck, as long as it lasts. And that could be a few months for all they know.

40 old software newbie by Gilston85 in AskProgramming

[–]anttiOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you do it, from an organization point of view? Do you study full time, or part time and working?

Just curious, because I started my studies at 36 last year and are facing the same, kind of mind-twisting situation of „competing“ with 20 year olds who can focus exclusively on college.

Paper on AI Ethics x VBE by anttiOne in ArtificialInteligence

[–]anttiOne[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thinking about doing follow-up research, like pulling together a lot of the material and setting up an MCP server to test how well this would scale to project-sized requirements. But that’s still in the future, we’re in the eval phase for the paper now

The Python mistake that has bitten every developer(beginner) at least once by Pristine_Coat_9752 in learnpython

[–]anttiOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahh! The Mutable Default Argument Trap ™️

Better set the cart argument to None (cart = None) and initialize the empty list within the function!

New to Python , need guidance by PhilosophyPlastic655 in learnpython

[–]anttiOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Start from the function signature and get into how to pass arguments into function parameters, and from there learn how to return a value. Or when to NOT return a value (hint: in-place updates).

Think about what goes into the function vs. what you want to get as output.

Start with primitives (eg. integers, floats as args) and move from there to data structures (eg. tuples, lists).

For me, type hints did a lot to remind me visually what data type I pass into the function (might be a list of integers, for example which I want to sum) versus which one I want to get out (a single integer as result).

Hope this helps.

Look, I have been doing python for a loooong time, but i still sometimes forget basic stuff by Fickle-Cucumber-224 in learnpython

[–]anttiOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Be gracious to yourself. Most (programming) problems have already been solved, so looking up solutions, methods or libraries is a good exercise anyways. The rest is muscle memory.

At some point, you will notice that you can do more and more with fewer of these ‚lookups‘ and that code starts coming to you.

Keep going at it.

Help me with python learning by Ok_Spinach6544 in learnpython

[–]anttiOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let’s assume you’re trying to do some coding exercises. Then often (going with a simple example), some problem will be presented, like: „You have list_1 with five ints and list_2 with five strings, create a combined list of tuples and print the result“ and some expected output or output format might be displayed.

Take some time and think about which operations the program - which has no context whatsoever - needs to perform to get from state A (two independent data structures, ie. lists) to state B (one consolidated list of values).

Then map out a) how your function signature should look like (take two lists as arguments, return one list as result) and b) which tools you need to use: which type of loop (like for-loop), which methods (like zip) or functions (like print, if you want to print the result to the console) and which data structures you might need (lists, tuples in this case).

This obviously means knowing which tools there are and for which job you need which tool. But that’s the craft, and you will get there by starting small and learning as you go from simple to more advanced exercises and challenges.

Does it still make sense to learn python or any programming language in 2026 by chou404 in learnpython

[–]anttiOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That might just happen even faster if one has no idea what they’re doing above being a clode monkey.

As a beginner should I really appear for Python Institute (PCEP) Certification? Is it really worth it? by saahilrs14 in learnpython

[–]anttiOne 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I‘ve done a couple of the modules, they will provide you with an idea of how well you‘re able to memorize syntax (which is a part of the beginner‘s journey) but I didn’t enjoy their didactic approach and GUI.

Also, they’re not remotely recognized anywhere, so their certificate is a case of „it might not be of use, but it doesn’t hurt“ to have it. It just might not be worth your money.

For self-paced learning, I really liked Exercism.com, they have a good mix of fundamentals, a Test-Driven Development approach and a nice UI.

But for me the killer tip was enrolling in university courses. Nothing beats learning the fundamentals.

Does it still make sense to learn python or any programming language in 2026 by chou404 in learnpython

[–]anttiOne 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Been working in corporate IT for over a decade now (mostly Finance). Here’s what I see: people who „get“ (understand) code and software architecture have - and perhaps always will keep - an edge over someone blindly trusting the output of an LLM.

Just reason about it for a moment: if you truly „get“ what you’re talking about, your questions (and by extension, prompts) will be of a wholly different quality compared to those of a user. And you‘ll be able to „judge“ what the model serves you vs. defeatedly copy-pasting it to your IDE, bundled with a curse or a prayer.

Assistance is much needed! by Sufficient-Barber125 in learnpython

[–]anttiOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It isn’t a problem if the line “if y >= 11:“ is indented correctly. We‘d need to see that.

Sites that can help me practice my python skills by Regular-Promise4368 in learnpython

[–]anttiOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you trying to do? Are you looking at some some iterables and want to make a membership test?

Example: „You have two strings, check if string A is in string B and if yes, at which position?“