How stupid do you have to be to believe that only 8% of companies have seen failed AI projects? We can’t manage this consistently with CRUD apps and people think that this number isn’t laughable? Some companies have seen benefits during the LLM craze, but not 92% of them. 34% of companies report that generative AI specifically has been assisting with strategic decision making? What the actual fuck are you talking about?

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I don’t believe you. No one with a brain believes you, and if your board believes what you just wrote on the survey then they should fire you.

  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Wait wait wait so… this person forgot the pythagorean theorem?

    Like that is the most basic task. It’s d = sqrt((x1 - x2)^2 + (y1 - y2)^2), right?

    That was off the top of my head, this person didn’t understand that? Do I get a job now?

    I have seen a lot of programmers talk about how much time it saves them. It’s entirely possible it makes them very fast at making garbage code. One thing I’ve known for a long time is that understanding code is much harder than writing it, and so asking an LLM to generate your code sounds like it’s just creating harder work for you, unless you don’t care about getting it right.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Yup, you’re hired as whatever position you want. :)

      Our instructions were basically:

      1. randomly place N coordinates on a 2D grid, and a random target point
      2. report the closest of those N coordinates to the target point

      It was technically different (we phrased it as a top-down game, but same gist). AI generated manhattan distance (abs(x2 - x1) + abs(x2 - x1)) probably due to other clues in the text, but the instructions were clear. The candidate didn’t notice what it was doing, we pointed it out, then they asked for the algorithm, which we provided.

      Our better candidates remember the equation like you did. But we don’t require it, since not all applicants finished college (this one did). We’re more concerned about code structure, asking proper questions, and software design process, but math knowledge is cool too (we do a bit of that).

      • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
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        3 months ago

        College? Pythagorean Theorem is mid-level high school math.

        I did once talk to a high school math teacher about a graphics program I was hacking away on at the time, and she was surprised that I actually use the stuff she teaches. Which is to say that I wouldn’t expect most programmers to know it exactly off the top of their head, but I would expect they’ve been exposed to it and can look it up if needed. I happen to have it pretty well ingrained in my brain.