ExtremisAndy

7 ms·

1.
by ExtremisAndy 17d ago
Yes. Don’t get me wrong: I use and enjoy these LLMs. But even now, well into 2026, I’m still using them via the now “old-fashioned” chat box in a web browser. Based on all that we’ve learned about this technology, there’s just no way I’m gi
2.
by ExtremisAndy 3mo ago
See, this, to me, seems obvious, but I’m sure it’s more challenging/complex than I can imagine (I am NOT an expert on AI in any way imaginable). But there has to be a solution. Just yesterday I was asking Gemini to tell me about a cert
3.
by ExtremisAndy 3mo ago
I think you may be right. I enjoy tech and programming, but hardly any of my friends/family do. And nearly everyone in my inner circle (an admittedly small number of people, considering I'm an extreme introvert) condemns and avoid
4.
by ExtremisAndy 4mo ago
Oh, my! This does look nice. Thank you for your hard work!
5.
by ExtremisAndy 6mo ago
For real! I occasionally write assembly because, for some reason, I kind of enjoy it, and also to keep my brain sharp. But yes, there is no way I could do it without pencil and paper (unless I’m on a site like CPUlator that visually shows e
6.
by ExtremisAndy 7mo ago
This is exactly how I use them too! What I usually do is give the LLM bullet points or an outline of what I want to say, let it generate a first attempt at it, and then reshape and rewrite what I don’t like (which is often most of it). I th
7.
by ExtremisAndy 9mo ago
>language is the refuge of educated idiots I love the way you've expressed this! This was my experience doing the lit review for my PhD. I read more than a few "scholarly" texts that were perhaps impressive from a language
8.
by ExtremisAndy 9mo ago
I felt this comment in my soul. I’ll never understand it: I’ve written thousands of lines of code (as a hobbyist) to solve all sorts of problems I’ve run into and yet always seem to struggle to wrap my mind around the core algorithms any r
9.
by ExtremisAndy 2y ago
"AI isn't great at creating software, but it is great at writing functions." This 100%. In my experience (ChatGPT - paid account), it often causes more problems than it solves when I ask it to do anything complex, but for wri
10.
by ExtremisAndy 2y ago
I have never heard of “jq”. Oh my goodness. Your comment may have just changed my life. I cannot emphasize enough how many times I have needed a tool like this (and, yes, shame on me for not making a better effort to find one). Thank you!
11.
by ExtremisAndy 2y ago
Wow, I’ve never thought about that, but you’re right! It really has trained me to be skeptical of what I’m being taught and confirm the veracity of it with multiple sources. A bit time-consuming, of course, but generally a good way to go ab
12.
Is ChatGPT a Dead End?(mindmatters.ai)
9 points by ExtremisAndy 3y ago|0 comments
13.
by ExtremisAndy 3y ago
Yeah, I love C++ as a hobbyist programmer but will readily admit I basically use it like C but with the added convenience of strings & classes. Hardly how you're supposed to use it these days, but this is fine for my toy projects.
14.
by ExtremisAndy 3y ago
This is indeed a valid question, but I think it’s largely up to the user. For me, as a hobbyist programmer that sometimes writes code at work to automate certain tasks, I use ChatGPT to quickly create boilerplate/template type code AND
15.
by ExtremisAndy 3y ago
I'm trying to remain impressed and open-minded, and there's no question these things are super cool, and something genuinely exciting. And who knows how much they'll improve over the next few years? But so far, if I'm br
16.
Is the AI Boom Already Over?(vox.com)
6 points by ExtremisAndy 3y ago|7 comments
17.
by ExtremisAndy 3y ago
I own one, but almost never use it. For quick, few-steps calculations I’ll use the iPhone’s calculator app. When I have more complex calculations, I almost always find myself needing to remember and label different values, so I’ll just type
18.
by ExtremisAndy 3y ago
I wanted to like React so bad. I tried. I loved JSX and really appreciated the way you could reuse components. That was all very cool, and I was initially quite enthusiastic about it. But for whatever reason, I just could not figure out sta
19.
by ExtremisAndy 3y ago
I always use it while developing a new web app, but admit that I always switch it to something "fancier" in production, mainly because I find alerts rather ugly. But, goodness gracious, it would simplify so many things! I've
20.
by ExtremisAndy 3y ago
No idea about Go, but I was curious how GPT-4 would handle a request to generate C code, so I asked it to help me write a header-only C string processing library with convenience functions like starts_with(), ends_with(), contains(), etc.)
21.
by ExtremisAndy 3y ago
That's the key: they still trudge through it. I fully agree that those people are indeed amazing. In my experience, though, many complainers toss out every objection possible hoping to make the new project seem so difficult that it isn
22.
by ExtremisAndy 4y ago
Yeah, me too. I honestly rather enjoy and appreciate her answers, and it's nice to have links to where she got her info from (because she has made a few mistakes). But, yes, the 'eerie fun' of interacting with her is gone. An
23.
by ExtremisAndy 4y ago
Oh, my! This is extremely helpful. And well organized, too. The one-liners section alone is enough to earn this a place on my bookmarks bar. Many thanks to whoever put this together!
24.
by ExtremisAndy 4y ago
Absolutely agree. I’m creating a chatbot for my website, and while it primarily uses old fashioned pattern matching, it does send unrecognized patterns to a stronger AI to get help forming a proper response, and I certainly don’t want it of
25.
by ExtremisAndy 4y ago
I am definitely tired of the topic, but I’ll be perfectly honest as to the reason why: I am genuinely afraid of its impact on my career. My career has been sort of a combination of tech and education, and this (admittedly impressive) creati
26.
by ExtremisAndy 4y ago
Very good points. My Python skills are such that I would be laughed out of a Python job interview for hilarious incompetence, but the small subset of the language I know and am comfortable with has allowed me to automate all sorts of tasks
27.
by ExtremisAndy 4y ago
Are you serious?! That is so hilarious to me, because I do the same thing! And I am always so terrified that I will get an interview, and they will want to see a sample of my code, and I will have forgotten to take out all the bits of juven
28.
by ExtremisAndy 4y ago
Yeah, I have to wonder if something else is going on with your machine/browser. Runs absolutely perfectly on my 2015 MacBook Pro.
29.
by ExtremisAndy 4y ago
Not sure if anyone else has said it, but I sure will. I am the lone developer of my website, and it has been so wonderful to be able to remain in JavaScript for both front and back end development. Node also makes a fine scripting language,
30.
by ExtremisAndy 4y ago
Wow. This method is so ridiculous I just might have to copy it. Seriously though, I hadn't thought about using that time (which most people are guaranteed to have every single day, several times a day) for learning new things. I think

More ›