Well, let’s get crackin’ then! 👊

Agreed. Something is better than nothing, and if enough people get on board, it might just be enough to make a difference.

I got curious about x86 assembly, so I followed some tutorials to get the hang of it. Once I had some confidence, I wrote a prime number generator. I had a loop that I was sure could be more efficient, but couldn’t figure it out.

I pasted the code to ChatGPT. It came back with an optimization that wouldn’t work because it wasn’t preserving critical register values. I pointed that out, and it responded, again and again, with the same code with the same problem. I was never able to get it out of this broken record mode.

I did the same thing. I also asked it to stop coming off as so certain about things after I discovered how wrong it is on some topics. It now presents confidence levels, but who knows if that’s accurate. At least it reminds me to verify.

It’s all fun and games until you graduate, and your employers realize you don’t know shit and can’t get up to speed.

I’m an engineer and it’s easy to pick out the ones who haven’t put in the work. They simply don’t last. Sure, some can skate by like that and are smart enough to learn on the fly. I’m cool with that.

You mean the AI that was trained on Reddit shitposts will be helping advance science? The AI that recommended putting glue on pizza, and that you won’t fall off a cliff if you just keep waking?

What could go wrong?