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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (18 children)

Promptfondler proudly messes with oss project (OpenAI subreddit)

To be clear nothing in the post makes me think they actually did what they are claiming, from doing non-specific 'fixes' to never explicitly saying what the project is other that that it is 'major' and 'used by many' to the explicit '{next product iteration} is gonna be so incredible you guys' tone of the post, it's just the thought of random LLM enthusiasts deciding en masse to play programmer on existing oss projects that makes my hairs stand on end.

Here they are explaining their process

It's code reading and copy pasta.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

So, all this tells me is that GPT5 is going to be scary good and I can't wait.

Amazing how much tech hype nowadays is 'the next version will be great!'. Parts of this always have existed, and there is also the other part of tech hype 'You don't get it, this isn't just tech, this allows you to be A Platform!'. Vast fields of new possibilities, always just out of reach. Fusion is 17.6 years away people!

E: Related to that, also see how people always need to shift to the next big thing. The next codebase will fix your problems, no the next new AI system will be better, dump the old and learn the new thing. (Don't forget to not notice you are not actually doing things, just learning new systems over and over).

What do you mean “fixed” an entire repo? How were you prompting and what were you fixing?

crickets

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When you're refactoring you need to be more familiar with the code base. For example, why are you refactoring you ask yourself. What parts of the code do that functionality. How is it intertwined to other parts of the code base.

Figuring out a codebase from first principles.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

That person is getting paid twice as much as you now for using chatgpt to code. And they still don't know what #include means.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

https://youtu.be/qE6emvdmg-M

Oh man this is just as good/bad as I remember.

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