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In this context AI-gen codescript sounds like a fast track to a final exam before qualification

It's cutting my programming work in half right now with quality .NET code. As long as I stay in the lead and have good examples + context in my codebase, it saves me a lot of time.

This was not the case for co-pilot though, but Cursor AI combined with Claude 3.7 is quite advanced.

If people are not seeing any benefit, I think they have the wrong use cases, workflow or tools. Which can be fair limitations depending on your workplace of course.

You could get in a nasty rabbit hole if you vibe-code too much though. Stay the architect and check generated code / files after creation.

I use it extremely sparingly. I’m critical of anything it gives me. I find I waste more time fixing its work and removing superfluous code more than I do gaining value from it.

Our tiny company of software engineers have embraced it in the IDE for what it is, a tool.

As a tool we have saved a crazy amount of man hours and as I don’t work for ghouls we recently got pay increases and a reduction in hours.

There are only 7 of us including the two owner / engineers and it’s been a game changer.

It quite depends on your use case, doesn't it? This decades-old phrase about an algorithm in Fractint always stuck with me: "[It] can guess wrong, but it sure guesses quickly!"
Part of my job is getting an overview - just some generic leads and hints - about topics completely unknown to me, really fast. So I just ask an LLM, verify the links it gives and create a response within like 10-15 minutes. So far, no complaints.

Yeah I find the code completion is pretty consistent and learns from other work I’m doing. Chat and asking it to do anything though is a hallucinogenic nightmare.

Thanks. So I have Chat GPT, now all I need is a wife... Maybe I should ask Chat GPT for one.

What I wrote was fucking my wife.

Seconded. I genuinely understand most of the hate against AI, but I can't understand how some people are so completely against any possible implementation.

Sometimes, an LLM is just good at rewording documentation to provide some extra context and examples. Sometimes it's good for reformatting notes into bullet points, or asking about that one word you can't put your finger on but generally remember some details about, but not enough for the thesaurus to find it.

Limited, sure, but not entirely useless. Of course, when my fucking charity fundraising platform starts adding features where you can speak to it and tell it "donate $x to x charity" instead of just clicking the buttons yourself, and that's where the development budget is going... yeah, I'm not exactly happy about that.

Might be people who don't give a shit one way or another are getting tired of the front page being filled with anti-AI memes every day.

who else would it be? They're the only people on the internet, don't you know?

Yes, and it must be fascists. But, I repeat you.

Btw, I'd suggest to install deepseek (or any other model) locally so that you don't give your data for free to others (also for security reasons).

Take advantage that it is a free/open software and somewhat easy to install.

Pretty much how I use it. Unimportant waste of time tasks like forms from HR and mandatory "anonymous" surveys. Refuse to do it until told directly and then get AI to write the most inoffensive and meaningless corporate bullshit.

Of course not having to do the task at all would be a more efficient use of my time but we get ignored when we say these forms are pointless. Not heard any one day anything positive about them in over a year.

All things that could have been/could be fixed, but let's dunk on end users with memes instead.

What tools to to replace math work besides calculator?

Mathematica is one example that solves integrals and do some elementary proof run-down for you.

Granted that it is used mostly by STEM students. But I rarelly see someone totally forbiding the use of Mathematica as learning tool.

If you want a more High-school tool, then geogebra is another great example (and also opensource.

Pretty useful to plot the graphs and help you see what you're getting wrong.

I'm answering just to show that there are indeed mathematical tools used for the inbetween of a full math major and a "paltry peasant" that only needs to compute a good enough function for his problem be it an engineer working beams load, a chemist working enthalpy reactions or an biologist trying to find an EDO that best fits the data of prey/predator in a given ecosystem.

I can't believe I have to say it on Lemmy of all places but fuck copyright.

Never used a computer algebra system? Like wolfram mathematica or sage math or maple? Then we have proof assisting software like coq and smt solvers like cvc5 or Z3.

This is all software that can solve real math problems in an easy way.

Have they isolated the reality that we are also living in times where there are a plethora of factors that are decreasing people's life outlooks? Depression also affects critical thinking skills. People are less inclined to practice critical thinking when most of their time is spent working for billionaires that are eroding our standard of living daily. I'm not going to be practicing how to be my best when the output of my work goes towards some rich societal parasite. And if that is taking most of my time when do I get to do this for myself when I'm tired after work? What about the fact education as a whole has been going into the shitter? If anything AI is masking how bad our current working conditions, work expectations, and dwindling education standards are truly affecting our falling critical thinking skills. I'm sorry but with all the external factors here I am extrenely skeptical of the results those studies are claiming to demonstrate, the controls to really isolate this down to purely AI being the root cause seems nearly impossible given the state of the world right now. But if you have links to these studies instead of random hearsay, I'd like to see how they isolated this down with controls on their study.

Edit: i see you posted down below and yeah i think this underscores my entire point:

"Furthermore, higher educational attainment was associated with better critical thinking skills, regardless of AI usage."

So it's not a factor of AI use its the fact our educational standards have gone to shit. And further more they are drawing results by comparing different generations and ai tool use dependence between them. Which doesn't isolate this decline to be just due to AI. I don't know this seems like a flawed study that's claiming correlation to be causation.

So, from a mathematician's perspective, mathematical operations are careful constructs. Their validity and creation being an effort in creativity and, indeed, final catharsis.

To separate the two, one need only dictate the medium of expression.

Same applies to AI tools. Try to make a coherent program with it without knowing how to program. Try to make a pretty picture without knowing. You'll end with very bad results.

But if you know the base of a topic any tool can enhance your efficiency at it.

Imagine having your job be to learn and you make an autocorrect do it

Not everything is improving.

These last week I had to make some questions about a topic to test myself, and to practice answering those questions.

I don't need to improve in "question writing skills" or anything like that. Even better, it's very convenient to not known what questions would I get so it's more like a real exam. So I just took an LLM inputted the topic I wanted to be asked about and told it to make me questions.

I'm very happy with the results, it was fast and help me practice answering the questions about the topic I was studying.

the only thing i'd improve at is to pull words out my ass to get the presentation to 10 minute length although everything could be said in 3 minutes. i use AI to take care of the bullshit, then i fact check and improve/rewrite. that way i didi in 20 minutes what others took hours to do

my time on this planet is as limited as yours or any others. i will make the most of it. just cause you don't value your time, doesn't mean others shouldn't too