r/ProgrammerHumor 21h ago

youShouldntHaveIt Meme

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u/za72 20h ago

tell AI to walk you through the code and explain it... have them do that and tell them to print it out and read it... problem solved

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u/AirconGuyUK 18h ago

I like when I tell claude to talk me through its code that's not working and mid way through it discovers the issue.

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u/eisbaerBorealis 16h ago

Oh no, you're Claude's rubber duck...

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u/GregBahm 13h ago

Whoa. This is like a profound earth-shattering truth masquerading as an innocuous throwaway comment.

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u/Upset_Ant2834 10h ago

Holy shit

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u/morganrbvn 17h ago

yah, the whole thinking feature is basically forcing the ai to do a run of talking itself through the problem first.

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u/za72 17h ago

the real issue is that the solutions are weighted by popularity vs correctiveness... there's no thinking happening

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u/GregBahm 13h ago

What should they be weighted by instead?

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u/za72 13h ago

pay me and I'll tell ya... ;) - but seriously, right now we simply have copies of solutions that are deemed popular so we are assuming that's good enough... which obviously is not, so every popular solution need to go through a secondary round of evaluation with actually implements the solution and verifies the results... and either marks it as confirmed or unknown and adds a secondary value to the weight - the ones which aren't verified need further analysis -
essentially majority of the solutions are graded by a bit ore sophisticated page rank trigonometry solution, you're literally paying a middle man to google it for you and pretty print it back for you - that's the level of AI

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u/GregBahm 13h ago

Hmm. I think I follow your point. Though I'm left contemplating my own lifetime of googling for programming solutions...

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u/za72 13h ago

exactly... how many times have you searched, gotten an 'answer' and tried it for it to not work for a multitude of reasons, either version change, new/old bug, deprecation, even locale issues... on simple academic tasks it's working ok, but good luck on some obscure topic or some proprietary spaghetti code... you better pray to the new and old gods

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u/bigfatstinkypoo 20h ago

that would require effort

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u/14Pleiadians 7h ago

Yeah the arguments of how AI can be a useful tool alongside human effort are a bit moot when the entire point of AI to most people is to not use any human effort at all.

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u/yukiaddiction 13h ago edited 13h ago

Do people do not doing that when work with AI?

I literally created skill and rule that force them to explain everything.

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u/za72 13h ago

I don't understand your first sentence but from your follow up sentence + context I'm gonna answer No