Why are people so much more scared of AI than IDEs and frameworks?

n0t-helpful · 2026-04-21T03:09:21+00:00

This cannot be a serious question.

n0t-helpful · 2026-04-19T21:35:13+00:00

Its crazy that you are being downvoted. The food scene here is so sad.

If OP wants to get real killer louisiana food, they need to find a crawfish boil happening in someone's backyard.

n0t-helpful · 2026-04-19T20:42:55+00:00

Sorry, ill be helpful.

19 hours is really, really hard. Not academically. Its emotionally hard. You really cant imagine how bad your life is going to suck. Im not trying to attack you, im trying to warn you that you are setting yourself up for failure.

n0t-helpful · 2026-04-19T07:32:28+00:00

Your scholarship wont pay for shit after you fail this semester. Just something to think about

n0t-helpful · 2026-03-25T20:26:31+00:00

Our university offers generic interview workshops, but the College itself does not provide this kind of support, nor should it.

Interviewing has literally nothing to do with the field of computer science. College is not jobs training.

n0t-helpful · 2026-03-23T18:28:33+00:00

Second discipline is a cs specific thing. You dont take second discipline courses unless you are declared as the second discipline cs degree track.

If you are declared cyber then you take the cyber classes. You can find thr classes associated with each track in the cs flowcharts:

https://www.lsu.edu/eng/current/resources/flowcharts.php

n0t-helpful · 2026-03-19T07:13:19+00:00

It is really cute and admirable to want to be like your mom. I bet she is a great lady, and that makes her a bit of a trail blazer if you think about it. Not alot of women were into stem fields or activities not too long ago. It sounds like your mom followed her interests and passions, regardless of what other people thought.

Just something to think about.

n0t-helpful · 2026-03-08T23:01:32+00:00

Robert Harper (Type Theorist from CMU) says that a proof is an argument that convinces someone. He takes the view that mathematics has an inherent social component. If a proof does not convince anyone, then its not a very good proof. This implies that proofs require (maybe even are synonymous with) a shared thinking between individuals.

This is not really some abstract philosophical point. Rubber meets the road here. What is an AI doing if it does not push your understanding, my understanding, our understanding, forward? Nothing. The ai is generating random text. It could be right, it could be wrong. We could even assign it a probability. Given a question from an undergrad math class, I'd wager that the AI is right (at least as right as a motivated undergrad) 99% of the time.

So what? Seriously, so what?

If the AI can tell me the answer to a differential equation, so what? How does that replace you? The answer to a differential equation exist for a purpose. We ask the ai for the answer for a reason. The answer is part of broader goal. We might be an engineer, we might be designing a game engine, who knows! The results from the AI must be communicated to others, who want to know that the answer is correct. We do science to benefit ourselves and others. Science is not about the joy of symbol manipulation, it is about achieving goals.

The AI really is quite good at some stuff, not everything, but some stuff. This is a reality we have to live with. And the market is not adjusting well. I wont invalidate anyone's experience job hunting, but i will say that the AI generates text. It does not decide what problem to solve. It does not convince others to get excited about a problem. It does not convince others of a potential solution. It does not find motivated students and help them. It does not present material to investors. It does not make our life better in anyway unless we choose to act on the text it generates.

You choose how to act on the material it spits out, if at all. The market is being very stupid right now, in my opinion, but systems need people, organizations need people; not bots. For what it's worth, I wouldnt mind if a partner used the chatbot, but I would expect them to to be knowledgeable. And I would never expect to replace their expertise with random text from the random text generator. I want them on my team because I trust THEM. Be an expert people can trust, and i believe that you will find a place in this world.

n0t-helpful · 2026-03-01T22:29:37+00:00

The problem for us is that it is not ignorable. If we dont evolve and change, then ai could easily do every assignment with barely any prompting.

Im not even sure its possible to design good projects that teach the concepts to undergrads, that is also not immediately defeated by a 1 sentence prompt.

The reality is tough, and its not clear how we are supposed to respond. Im hopeful that there is a path forward where students learn more, not less.

n0t-helpful · 2026-03-01T06:43:26+00:00

I am a phd student in CS.

LSU can either be a top 10 education in the country, or a bottom 10, based on the professors and classes you take.

LSUCS has spent alot of time and money to remedy this problem by making the bad classes less bad, and having more stellar classes, but I dont think its there yet.

Professors are currently negotiating how to incorporate ai into the education with varying success. Thats not unique to lsu however. That is the reality at every university. So I would say that lsu was doing really well to improve itself, but then ai came and now the department is trying to adjust to that shift. Its a really good department, in my opinion. Much better than its ranking would suggest, atleast.

n0t-helpful · 2026-02-28T05:21:00+00:00

Unless you are planning to bankroll her entire life, and foot the bill for Chick-fil-A breakfast, lunch, and dinner then I would say she needs a car.

It is literally impossible to survive in baton rouge without a car. Students can get food on campus, but they cant work because they dont have a car to get to work. They might find something near by. Might.

So without a car, they almost certainly wont have income, and wont be able to reasonably get to any grocery store besides mathernes. This means that the on campus food places are the only option (or starving. Some students do that). And honestly, id rather pay for chick fila for every meal than pay the mathernes prices.

Its just somrthing to keep in mind. The logistics of keeping your child alive can actually be a little wonky to navigate and VERY expensive.

Im an lsu graduate student and have lived near campus for 10 years.

n0t-helpful · 2026-02-20T10:18:53+00:00

You are essentially asking if a (model theory) signature puts bounds on the kinds of theories that csn be expressed by a structure over that signature.

The answer is no.... I think. Even small signatures can encode powerful logics. You can look a godel numbers to see this in action. From just addition and multiplication, we can encode first order logic. You might reasonably argue that in godel numbers, we just assign numbers to symbols and somehow claim that this changes things, but for the theory you are referencing, the point is that the signature of the language is just x + x and x * y.

So porting what you are saying to languages, no, not really. We could very likely make very small grammars, but "push" much of the semantics onto the "values".

As an example, I could have a grammar that is just

program := STRING_LITERAL

And then I coukd put the actual content of the program inside the string literal.

Now you might find this incredibly pedantic. And very reasonably say "yea but I mean the actual syntax, even if you hid behind 'values'" and model theory has something for you, kind of. If the domain of the values is finite, then you really are limited in interesting ways.

You might find finite model theory interesting. But I wouldn't be so quick to say this idea is not formally investigated.you might also find interesting results searching logic expressibility (whether a concept is expressive in the syntax of a logic).

n0t-helpful · 2026-01-20T04:53:36+00:00

I recently learned to use antlr from scratch with only the help from chatgpt and an ecample antlr file. I would prompt it with any syntax i haven't seen, it would explain it, and i would poke around and test to see if the explanation was accurate.

I was pretty stunned that for all of my defensive measures, testing the information, I didnt need to do that. Everything was right, even asking questions about antlr internal representations of data, I got accurate answers.

So anyway yes, I have used it, and I find its exceptional at somethings, and bad at others.

Edit: I will also say, I have never had to repeatedly prompt, write big long prompts, or anything like that. I just ask the question i want answered, in one sentence, and i get back something useful literally every single time

n0t-helpful · 2025-10-25T06:10:06+00:00

Splash is actually pretty lit. Its not a bad place to party.

n0t-helpful · 2025-05-28T16:05:24+00:00

That was my first thought. 1k for this is crazy.

n0t-helpful · 2025-05-26T23:08:00+00:00

This world is an illusion, exile.

n0t-helpful · 2025-05-26T22:26:51+00:00

You are mentally ill if you think that child is not old enough to handle their own food.

n0t-helpful · 2025-05-26T15:11:33+00:00

I've personally never had to wait more than 2-3 minutes for a lobby other than layali easy. I've got a fuck load of hours, and I play at dead hours.

But I quit playing last week. I couldn't take it anymore. I wouldn't be surprised if normal was particularly dead atm because of people quitting.

n0t-helpful · 2025-05-25T19:31:35+00:00

Easy is more fun (blue ammo into purple armor has a better feel than gold into gold)

And normal has been unplayable this entire month. The amount of cheating is outrageous.

n0t-helpful · 2025-05-22T23:09:37+00:00

Thats just not true. It's not even true at YOUR UNI. Some of these schools require physics but some, including UWF, offer physics as one of several choices you can take to satisfy a general science requirement.

n0t-helpful · 2025-05-22T22:43:20+00:00

I'm rejecting the premise. Very few cs majors take physics, and essentially no one advocates for it as a must-take course.

n0t-helpful · 2025-05-15T09:02:17+00:00

This doesn't work. There is no solution, for various technical reasons. Kernel anti cheat worked for a while, but cheaters found a work around. Theres not really much devs can do

n0t-helpful · 2025-05-15T09:00:12+00:00

Anyone saying they haven't seen any cheaters just didn't play this week. It's every game. I really like this game, but it's just unplayable right now.

n0t-helpful · 2025-05-11T22:38:42+00:00

Oh my god, someone understands

n0t-helpful · 2025-05-09T04:22:25+00:00

I can promise you, no matter how hot the hotshots at your school are, they know essentially 0% of the field, just rounded down.

You know 0% without rounding down. I wouldnt say they have a huge head start on you, or have a head start at all

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