If I can't understand the code, and you can't explain, I'm not validating your pull request.

End of story.

I threw together a slop project to test something. It put in some JSON for something that didn't use that. I told it it was just some plain text. It took the JSON library out again. Then I added in something that does use JSON and it tried to make a basic JSON parsing library from scratch.

It's like a very junior programmer at times, with amnesia.

It does make some menial tasks simpler, but if people think it will actually replace us then they're in for a shock.

Claude make me an app that makes me $1 Million/day. Do not make any mistakes. Make the code maintain able.

Thanks for the tips /s

To be fair I used to make entire features like this and then get R# to move the classes into separate files at the end. Guess I don’t like to organise too early, before the code has found it’s true form?

Yeah, that's what bothers me so much. It doesn't get "smarter" or imagine novel solutions. It simply has access to everything that's already existed.

I'm scared we're gonna have already experiencing some kind of intellectual slump because handing everything to the machine built on existing knowledge...doesn't yield any new ideas.

I'm sure they're still banking on human brains having new ideas, so they can simply steal them and feed those new ideas to the machine. Then they'll tell the ideator their brain is irrelevant thanks to the industrialized intellect-theft device.

it's imitating the things we have already created.

dont you think thats exactly what most people want? they dont want to create next Linux :(

Neurons are incapable of reasoning they're just firing based on a deterministic action potential. What are neural networks doing but creating internal models of reality and guessing what's next based on patterns?

Worst people you know pretend they read a math paper from 10 years ago, and it gives them deep understanding of all the complex problems you can imagine. It's hard to overstate how much this one paper fried their brains. It's even harder to overstate how it's actually just one paper about computer math

Just googled it: https://en.wikipedia.org/...

The white paper on the fundamentals of the current AI push. Everything is for the most part based on that architecture from 2017 but with cleaver twist or two.

maybe on krypton code monkeys are licensed and everyone else is just doing engineering

IIRC you can't actually use the title "Engineer" prefixed or not without having a P.Eng license here in Canada. Of course, that didn't stop my previous American employers from giving me the title of Software Engineer but it's not supposed to be allowed

Yeah, I moved into software from electrical engineering. “Software engineers” are rarely doing engineering. Though, weirdly, the LLM-assisted coding methods seems to be leading to more of a focus on specs, design documents, and testing methodology, which almost makes it more like actual engineering.

"Software Engineer" is a title that is licensed by professional engineering organizations in Canada. Would you acknowledge that it's "a thing" in Canada?

You're on Lemmy so you'd be better off learning Mandarin or Russian.

Words which indicate a minimun amount of trained and proven competence or authority, such as Doctor or Police Lieutenant, are not things you can just claim willy nilly.

Programmer

Random insult to a guy that does entertainment quite well. Am I reading too much into it or are you randomly extra pissed?

I only consider Engineering to be the application of math and science to plan complex systems or structures.

If a person is doing that as a programmer then they have to already understand computer architecture to a bare minimum of how memory works physically, processor functionality, and discreet mathematics: which makes them a computer engineer.

If a person completely lacks understanding of math or physics behind the machines they code for then I don't care how complicated their derivative work is: it is not engineering. Much like how painting is not engineering nor is balancing a stack of rocks.

An engineer can code but a programmer is not an engineer. I have actually, btw, though not as a programmer but closely with them.

Programmer is shorter and more honest than software engineer, tho

TBH it's not easy to get 98 people to engage with a bottom of the list comment so clearly some part of it is botted, which tracks because I'm pissing off sloppers and slopper admins every time I visit this instance.

You're right, we should let people who know HTML print out their own degrees equivalent to a 6 year discipline with specific application of math and science. /sarcasm

It matters.

Lots. It's the entire craft, what do you even mean? The whole thing is creative thinking.

Depends on the task, somewhere between next to none and actual engineering.

And even though I don't have have a degree or any certifications...

You must be really good! That's quite impressive, especially given how many jobs degree-gate just to filter applications so HR doesn't have to work too hard.

My job is solving business problems.

Sometimes I wish I got dopamine for solving business problems. I'd probably find myself in a lot more situations where people are willing to hand me money. XD

But yeah, software engineering is totally a thing. Like you said, it's just somebody (hopefully) carefully creating tools to solve particular problems.

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