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mmaundertoday at 2:19 AM2 repliesview on HN

But my AI didn't do what your AI did.

Cherry picked AI fail for upvotes. Which you’ll get plenty of here an on Reddit from those too lazy to go and take a look for themselves.

Using Codex or Claude to write and optimize high performance code is a game changer. Try optimizing cuda using nsys, for example. It’ll blow your lazy little brain.


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kccqzytoday at 2:58 AM

Yeah right. A LLM in the hands of a junior engineer produces a lot of code that looks like they are written by juniors. A LLM in the hands of a senior engineer produces code that looks like they are written by seniors. The difference is the quality of the prompt, as well as the human judgement to reject the LLM code and follow-up prompts to tell the LLM what to write instead.

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oofbeytoday at 2:21 AM

It’s easy to get AI to write bad code. Turns out you still need coding skills to get AI to write good code. But those who have figured it out can crank out working systems at a shocking pace.

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