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▲ FeepingCreature 17 hours ago

> What if I had trusted the code? It was working after all.

Then you would have been done five minutes earlier? I mean, this sort of reads like a parody of microoptimization.

▲nottorp 17 hours ago | parent [-]

No, it reads like "your precious AI generates first year junior code". Like the original article.

▲FeepingCreature 15 hours ago | parent [-]

There is nothing wrong with first year junior code that does the job.

▲nottorp 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Does not. Do you know my requirements? This is actually in a time critical path.

▲FeepingCreature 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, that wasn't in your comment. :P

If you hadn't told me that I would also not have bothered optimizing syscalls.

Did you tell the AI the profiler results and ask for ways to make it faster?

▲nottorp 13 hours ago | parent [-]

> Well, that wasn't in your comment. :P

Acting like a LLM now :P

> Did you tell the AI the profiler results and ask for ways to make it faster?

Looking for ways to turn a 10 minute job into a couple days?

▲FeepingCreature 9 hours ago | parent [-]

AI actually doesn't really work for the "a couple days" scale yet. As a heavy AI user, this sort of iterative correction would usually be priced in in a 10-minute AI session. That said-

> Acting like a LLM now :P

Hey, if we're going to be like that, it sure sounds like you gave the employee an incomplete spec so you could then blame it for failing. So... at least I'm not acting like a PM :P