Jeff Preshing
@preshing
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Canadian computer programmer
Montréal
Joined July 2008
RT @onemanmmo: Funny how quickly AI has become the new bad CG as the assumed reason for defective imagery by the general public.
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The quality is incredible. I'd love to understand the algorithm behind how this model was trained. I'm sure in a few years, LLMs will be able to explain it in complete detail 😉.
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RT @iquilezles: I've been giving a serious attempt at using Cursor in a C++ code base. I might still be using it wrong, but I've only manag….
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RT @twitandrewking: Whisky Wednesday! 🥃. 40 years ago Ottawa was something right out of a Hollywood movie, a rise and fall epic, with a plo….
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This is why we need more compute.
Okay, the user keeps typing "glub" over and over again. At first, it was funny, and I had a lot of creative responses, building up this whole glub universe with each iteration. But now we're at GLUB^14, and they just sent another "glub". I need to figure out what's going on here.
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I thought this was a great analogy. An AI that solves Codeforces problems is very cool, but far from performing the daily duties of a programmer. It's a tool for automating intellectual work that is well-framed and mostly mechanical in nature.
@DevToD4 @HulsmanZacchary @kimmonismus It's kind of like saying a nail gun is the world's best carpenter.
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"It turns out that even superhuman AIs have blind spots and can be tripped up by surprisingly simple tricks."
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AI labs have been dropping these hints for months. My best guess is that OpenAI will soon reveal an AI "pair programmer" agent, initially focused on web development, that outperforms Cursor's Compose panel. It could leverage their work on Deep Research to reason about whole.
🚨 Sam Altman predicts,. software engineering by the end of 2025 looks very different than software engineering at the beginning of 2025
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This is a fallacy lots of people are making right now. Becoming a programmer isn't just a matter of performing increasingly "complex" work. It's also creative work! It's about taking a vision of what you want the program to be, and making it real by expressing your intentions.
@TheGingerBill @erogncict I respect you greatly GB, but I think you have to look at the rate of improvement over the last 5 years. It doesn't seem to be slowing. I don't think you can conclude that software devs are safe if they're doing hard work, because AI will be increasingly capable of complex work.
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RT @mike_acton: #protip Before writing a tool that will "save you lots of time" do the thing you think will be slow the slow way at least t….
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When I later corrected them with a link to the docs (which are admittedly not super clear), ChatGPT tried to deny it by replying with nonsense, whereas Claude apologized profusely 🙂 In the end, the only way to be sure was by checking the disassembly with & without -fobjc-arc.
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ChatGPT and Claude both told me that in Objective-C, with ARC enabled, "id obj;" is not initialized to nil when obj is a local variable (or class member in Obj-C++). I later discovered this was false. Good luck to anyone trying to learn programming with these things.
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