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Any Day Now (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 68 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Please exit the job market and let people who want to code make money

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  • [+] -10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    This is another fine example of where assumptions get you no where on the internet. My job isn't coding but it requires knowing to do it well. If I exit the job market, as per your request, I cannot be replaced by a coder. Believe it or not, most jobs that require a coding skillset are not about coding. Crazy, right? 😲

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    "assumptions"? Maybe consider how "I'm so sick of coding" implies you're doing coding? I'm so sick of driving, oh no somebody 'assumed' I'm a driver instead of a mechanic. Believe it or not, most people 'assume' something when you use sentences that imply it. CrAZy, riGhT? 😲

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    ...why would a professional whatever make a remark for technology doing their job for them and making their career redundant?

    Farmer, coder, driver, whatever. "I can't wait for the bots to do this" is not a common muttering. Except maybe if in the c-suite...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    They said they are doing some coding at their non-coding job. It would be good if AI could replace amateur programmers, it would make better code and take a load off the workers

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Not in the first comment, and I replayed to the second one only because they were acting like a stereotypical obnoxious redditor. As for LMM use, sure it could replace them, just give it a little more time and more money and a bit more money and some more money and also enough data server centres to suck dry entire lakes

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    I'm not a coder, but my job requires a bunch of menial, boring coding. I do numerical simulations. After mathematically understanding the numerical method, it's basically half a step above data entry. There's also a bunch of legacy fortran code I have to build on that has zero documentation and three letter variables. This would be one of the few actually good applications of text generating machine learning imo.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Or your employer would invest some money in a proper tool for your job.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (8 children)

    Nobody has built a tool that executes a mathematical method that I have developed or at least adapted, at least not before I publish the method.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    So why haven’t you published the method?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Because I'm in academia and it's a slow process to get things published in a way that 'counts' to the university and scientific community. I often need to implement stuff first to check a few things, whether it's viable etc.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    That’s not how it works. Put it on GitHub like the rest of us and stop making excuses.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'm sorry to tell you this but people do not, in fact, publish mathematical proofs on GitHub routinely. You publish them on arxive once the paper is done. And then in a journal. The solvers themselves aren't even what it's about at all, they're just to do numerical experiments with to have some examples. They aren't immediately useful for any applications outside niche research.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    You’re right that mathematical proofs are usually published on arXiv and then in journals. But since you mentioned code: sharing code on GitHub is actually very normal in research. Even if it’s just a solver or scripts for experiments, putting it on GitHub helps with reproducibility, gives others a chance to learn from or build on your work, and makes it easy to cite. There’s no obligation to polish it perfectly—lots of research repos are just “as is” snapshots to support a paper.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    To be very honest, I'm also a tad embarrassed to share my code. I guess I'll ask my professor about this.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Now, that is completely understandable. This is also a reason I don’t publish most of my things. They work, they work well, but… Some of it is kind of nasty. However, other developers are going to understand. Just mention this in the read me file. Or better yet, use this as an opportunity to refactor code. An LLM could be very helpful For that process.

    If you are not familiar with the process of using git or GitHub, i’m sure many of us, including myself, would be more than happy to help you.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If it has three letter variables, chances are it was also written by someone that doesn't want to code either

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