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‘More harmful than helpful’: young people sour on AI (www.ft.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 7 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

If it can't output ~50 lines of code that is reasonably common from textbooks with one minor modification, I'm not clear what the benefit is

It's certainly not faster

I already stated I kept prompting it for over 30 minutes and it still hadn't fully completed the problem

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  • [+] -8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Well, if it took you 30 minutes, it’s not the AI’s fault.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    So, it's the same answer as every other time I've tried to talk to people supporting AI...

    If it didn't work, I just I didn't guide it enough, and if I did guide it, it's a skill issue...

    It is pretty hard to come up with an easier problem for it to solve for an example case

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Mine worked fine. I didn’t use your prompt cut and paste though. It was inefficient on the first prompt, but it worked, and by the third it was pretty speedy. I used codex 5.5, which imo is better than Claude for the time being.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Claude 4.6 was doing shit like

    extern char grid[5][5]

    ...

    fgets(grid[i], 6, fp); grid[i][6] = '\0';

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago

    Yeah codex does some stuff where I’m pretty disappointed. It never really gets me 100% to where I need to be without human interaction. But I’m aware it won’t (probably ever) do that and I’m fine with it. It got me 70% there, while I play with my cat… and charge for it. 🤷‍♂️

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