• Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Even writing an RFC for a mildly complicated feature to mostly describe it takes so many words and communication with stakeholders that it can be a full time job. Imagine an entire app.

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Getting ai to do a complex problem correctly takes so much detailed explanation, it’s quicker to do it myself

      • TurdBurgler@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        While it’s possible to see gains in complex problems through brute force, learning more about prompt engineering is a powerful way to save time, money, tokens and frustration.

        I see a lot of people saying, “I tried it and it didn’t work,” but have they read the guides or just jumped right in?

        For example, if you haven’t read the claude code guide, you might have never setup mcp servers or taken advantage of slash commands.

        Your CLAUDE.md might be trash, and maybe you’re using @file wrong and blowing tokens or biasing your context wrong.

        LLMs context windows can only scale so far before you start seeing diminishing returns, especially if the model or tools is compacting it.

        1. Plan first, using planning modes to help you, decomposition the plan
        2. Have the model keep track of important context externally (like in markdown files with checkboxes) so the model can recover when the context gets fucked up

        https://www.promptingguide.ai/

        https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-practices

        There are community guides that take this even further, but these are some starting references I found very valuable.

  • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Explicit programmers are needed because the general public has failed to learn programming. Hiding the complexity behind nice interfaces makes it actually more difficult to understand programming.

    This comes all from programmers using programs to abstract programming away.

    What if the 2030s change the approach and use AI to teach everybody how to program?

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      the general public has failed to learn programming

      That’s like saying that the general public has failed to learn surgery, or the general public has failed to learn chemical engineering.

      There are certain things that it just doesn’t make sense for the general public to ever be expected to learn.

      • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
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        3 months ago

        People bake and learn basic chemistry. The baseline of general programming knowledge could be more than zero. It’s a fundamental part of our society.

              • merc@sh.itjust.works
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                3 months ago

                So, I can tell you what I know from a bassist’s PoV.

                What I posted was the 12 bar blues chord progression in Roman Numeral notation. What it tells you is that if you start in the key of C, the other bars are 4 and 5 notes up from C. In addition, since the notation is in uppercase, the chords / arpeggios you can play in that bar are major not minor. So, if a bassist is playing a walking bass line for 12 bar blues, they’ll probably start those bars with C, F and G. But, since they’re C major, F major and G major, the bassist can play major arpeggios in that key in those bars and it will sound good.

                For other kinds of blues progressions, if you know Radiohead’s “Creep”, you can see that as being an 8 bar blues with the following progression:

                1 2 3 4
                I III IV iv
                I vi ii V7

                So if the root is C, the 2nd bar is E major, third bar is F major, 4th bar is F minor, and so on. Because the 3rd and 4th bars are both rooted at F the bassist can just play an F there and it sounds good (which is what I think Radiohead’s bassist does), but if the bassist chooses to play more notes in an apeggio, they have to play notes from the F-minor scale in that 4th bar or it doesn’t match.

                As for why those various chord progressions happen to work, that I don’t know. I don’t know if anybody does. But, I do know there’s some math / physics behind it. A perfect fifth is one of the most pleasant sounding intervals, and those notes are at a frequency ratio of 2:3. The only better sounding thing is an octave at 1:2. And, the inverse of a perfect fifth is a perfect fourth. So, songs being made from 4ths, 5ths and octaves makes sense.