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• teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Trying to understand where you might be going with this. Is the implication that non-deterministic/stochastic algorithms have no practical use in engineering?

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  • littleomid@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No, they have a place where stochastic algorithms are necessary. For writing a hello world application, no stochastic algorithm is necessary. Comparing compilers with LLMs is comparing apples with oranges.

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    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think it will become more apparent over time. But consider that the practice of software engineering is a stochastic process. Give 10 different engineers the same goal, and you’ll get 10 different solutions.

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      • littleomid@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        At that rate me walking to the store is stochastic because a grand piano could fall on my head. We have to draw the line at some logical point.

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      • aldhissla@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If a SW dev applicant gives a 20-file generated output for a 20-line assessment problem and can’t explain single lines of “their” code, either what they should be doing or why “they” had written it, it’s gonna be a no fron me, dawg. A standard problem might have different solutions, but fixing the issue of the day to the satisfaction of a rabidly vocal customer base might have one at most, and it will change multiple times on a whim.

        So the LLM might have helped them cheat their way to an MSc, but real there’s no cheating your way through real life.

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