> I think I'm a pretty skilled programmer, or I'm at least good enough at interviewing to convince other people of that, but it's pretty obvious from comparing LLM generated code to code I'd write myself that in many domains LLMs are superior to me.
there's an important caveat here - LLMs absolutely can write better code than me, but they can also write far worse code, and often don't seem to be able to tell the difference. I find myself spending a lot of time prompting the bots to refine their code in specific ways that I only know about because I read the generated output.
there was an old riddle I saw on usenet, "there is a key I use for one of its intended purposes several times a day, but when it stopped working I never missed it. what key was that?". the answer was the caps lock key, one of whose intended purposes was reverting back to normal after accidentally pressing it to go into caps mode.
ctrl+u generally works for lots of password prompts to reset/remove what was typed, wherever you come across a password prompt and a keyboard including those two keys.
I've been using it happily for longer than that! I do remember having to tweak the default search behaviours when I first installed it but it's been largely problem free ever since.
reminds me of the time when you got strips of fn key binding cheat sheets for various popular software packages like lotus 123 and wordperfect, and keyboards came with a space to hold them.
I just recently read the novelisation of "shada"[0]. it was altogether delightful, and reminded me of the time in college when I was a huge fan of dr who novels despite never really getting into the TV show.
there's an important caveat here - LLMs absolutely can write better code than me, but they can also write far worse code, and often don't seem to be able to tell the difference. I find myself spending a lot of time prompting the bots to refine their code in specific ways that I only know about because I read the generated output.
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