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80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful (www.zdnet.com)
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A new Coddy Developer Survey found that four in five developers, 80%, say their use of AI has felt more like a dependence than an advantage.

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[–] Seimhe@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (15 children)

Considering the vast amounts of knowledge it has at its disposal, I can only conclude that it’s not very smart at applying it. A person with a fraction of that knowledge will produce better results.

So it has more access to information, but the results are poor compared to a person.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 41 points 4 days ago (14 children)

The important thing to remember is that it actually has zero access to information, because that's not how LLMs work.

At their core, they're vector databases, and they're trying to probabilistically come up with the next most likely token in a stream of tokens found in the DB. You can manipulate the stream by injecting text such as the content of existing files (which becomes more tokens) into the stream, but it never actually understands any of it.

That's why hallucinations are inherently unavoidable. It's really all just hallucinations. It's just that you can sometimes get useful text from their hallucinations if they happen to comport with reality.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Well, vector fields are information. But they have no understanding. The number 1 might be followed by 2 in 99.999% of cases, but it has no function to explain why, or to contextualize a scenario where that might be wrong.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 3 days ago

or to contextualize a scenario where that might be wrong.

Actually, the many dimensions of the vector field are exactly where and how they do this.

Google Gemini prompt: "List common situatuions where 2 would not be expected to folow 1"

Here are common situations where the number 2 would not be expected to follow the number 1:

🔢 Alternative Number Systems

  • Binary code: Counts 0, 1, 10, 11 (2 does not exist).
  • Odd numbers: Sequential listing skips even numbers (1, 3, 5, 7).
  • Prime numbers: Starting a list of odd primes skips 2 (3, 5, 7).
  • Fibonacci sequence: The sequence begins 0, 1, 1, 2 (1 follows 1).

🏷️ Identifiers and Classifications

  • Software versioning: A patch update moves from version 1.1 to 1.1.1 or 1.2.
  • Sports jersey numbers: Roster listings sort by position or last name, not sequence.
  • Product models: iPhone models skipped from 8 to X (10), and later from 11 to 12.
  • Street addresses: Odd and even numbers sit on opposite sides of the road.

🕒 Time and Measurements

  • Military time: The hour 01:00 moves to 02:00, but minutes go from 01 to 02 up to 59.
  • Calendar dates: January 1st is followed by January 2nd, but February 1st follows January 31st.

🃏 Games and Sports

  • Playing cards: An Ace (1) can be followed by a King in a high-low wrap sequence.
  • Leaderboards: Tie scores result in two players holding 1st place, skipping 2nd place entirely.
  • Dice rolls: Independent probability means a roll of 1 has no bearing on the next number.

🗣️ Linguistics and Formats

  • Alphabetical order: When sorting numbers as text, 1 is followed by 10, 100, and 11.
  • Roman numerals: The value I is followed by II, but formatting rules change at IV (4).

To help me narrow down what you are looking for, could you tell me if you need this for a mathematical logic puzzle, a programming algorithm, or a creative writing project?

Those context questions it asked at the end are a prompt to you to feed it dimensional guidance into its vector fields for more specifically applicable responses to your vague and open ended example.

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