Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml Maven (famous) @lemmy.zip 2 wk. ago

In case Copilot was too much work

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/27030131

The full repo: https://github.com/vongaisberg/gpt3_macro

Programmer Humor @programming.dev Maven (famous) @lemmy.zip 3 wk. ago

In case Copilot was too much work

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Is this the freaking antithesis of reproducible builds‽ Sheesh, just thinking of the implications in the build pipeline/supply chain makes me shudder
- Just set the temperature to zero, duh
  
  When your CPU is at 0 degrees Kelvin, nothing unpredictable can happen.
  
  Looking at the source they thankfully already use a temp of zero, but max tokens is 320. That doesn't seem like much for code especially since most symbols are a whole token.
- Just hash the binary and include it with the build. When somebody else compiles they can check the hash and just recompile until it is the same. Deterministic outcome in presumambly finite time. Untill the weights of the model change then all bets are off.
- this is how we end up with lost tech a few decades later
- someone post this to the guix mailinglist 😄
- You'd have to consider it somewhat of a black box, which is what people already do.
  
  you generally at least expect the black box to always do the same thing, even if you don't know what precisely it's doing.
A little nondeterminism during compilation is fun!

So is drinking bleach, or so I've heard.
ah sweet, code that does something slightly different every time i compile it
- Just like the rest of my code.
  
  Or as I like to call it, "Fun with race conditions."
The top issue from this similar joke repo I feel sums up the entire industry right now: https://github.com/rhettlunn/is-odd-ai
- I think it's a symptom of the age-old issue of missing QA: Without solid QA you have no figures on how often your human solutions get things wrong, how often your AI does and how it stacks up.
One step left - read JIRA description and generate the code
- Congratulations. You've invented the software engineer.
lol, that example function returns is_prime(1) == true if i'm reading that right
- "hey AI, please write a program that checks if a number is prime"
  
  "Sure thing, i have used my godlike knowledge and intelligence to fundamentally alter mathematics such that all numbers are prime, hope i've been helpful."
- Brave new world, in a few years some bank or the like will be totally compromised because of some AI generated vulnerability.
- Well it's only divisible by itself and one
Even this hand picked example is wrong as it returns true if num is 1
Jesus fuck
That reminds me of Illiad's UserFriendly where the non tech guy Stef creates a do_what_i_mean() function, and that goes poorly.

I would say this AI function generator is a new version of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM
Create a function that goes into an infinite loop. Then test that function.
I cracked at "usually".
Does that random 'true' at the end of the function have any purpose? Idk that weird ass language well
- It's the default return. In rust a value without a ; at the end is returned.
  
  That honestly feels like a random, implicit thing a very shallow-thought-through esolang would do ...
  
  Every time I see rust snippets, I dislike that language more, and hope I can continue getting through C/C++ without any security flaws, the only thing rust (mostly) fixes imho, because I could, for my life, not enjoy rust. I'd rather go and collect bottles (in real life) then.
Is this not what we are eventually striving for? To speak to computers in a natural human language and be able to build things that way, Star Trek style?

I mean sure I wouldn't trust/use it now.

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