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Write tests and run them, reiterate until all tests pass.
Bogosort with extra steps
That doesn't sound viby to me, though. You expect people to actually code? /s
You can vibe code the tests too y'know
Return "works";
Am I doikg this correctly?
You know, I'd be interested to know what the critical size you can get to with that approach is before it becomes useless.
It can become pretty bad quickly, with just a small project with only 15-20 files. I've been using cursor IDE, building out flow charts & tests manually, and just seeing where it goes.
And while incredibly impressive how it's creating all the steps, it then goes into chaos mode where it will start ignoring all the rules. It'll start changing tests, start pulling in random libraries, not at all thinking holistically about how everything fits together.
Then you try to reel it in, and it continues to go rampant. And for me, that's when I either take the wheel or roll back.
I highly recommend every programmer watch it in action.
I think Generative AI is a genuinely promising and novel tool with real, valuable applications. To appreciate it however, you have to mentally compartmentalize the irresponsible, low-effort ways people ~~sometimes~~ mostly use it—because yeah, it's very easy to make a lot of that so that's most of what you see when you hear "Generative AI" and it's become its reputation...
Like I've had interesting "conversations" with Gemini and ChatGPT, I've actually used them to solve problems. But I would never put it in charge of anything critically important that I couldn't double check against real data if I sensed the faintest hint of a problem.
I also don't think it's ready for primetime. Does it deserve to be researched and innovated upon? Absolutely, but like, by a few nerds who manage to get it running, and universities training it on data they have a license to use. Not "Crammed into every single technology object on earth for no real reason".
I have brain not very good sometimes disease and I consider being able to "talk" to a "person" who can get me out of a creative rut just by exploring my own feelings a bit. GPT can actually listen to music which surprised me. I consider it scientifically interesting. It doesn't get bored or angry at you unless you like, tell it to? I've asked it for help with a creative task in the past and not actually used any of its suggestions at all, but being able to talk about it with someone (when a real human who cared was not available) was a valuable resource.
To be clear I pretty much just use it as a fancy chatbot and don't like, just copy paste its output like some people do.
I'd rather recommend every CEO see it in action...
They're the ones who would be cock-a-hoop to replace us and our expensive wages with kids and bots.
When they're sitting around rocking back and forth and everything is on fire like that Community GIF, they'll find my consultancy fees to be quite a bit higher than my wages used to be.
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