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Most programmers just google it anyway (lemm.ee)
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[–] 31 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I do backend development in PHP and Ruby, and AI sometimes has a suggestion that helps me out but is often completely, utterly useless, especially at actually coding the thing from scratch.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Yeah lol, a lot of "I need to do X" and I often get "use functionThatDoesX then" and sometimes it's a wonderful discovery, most often though it just doesn't exist lol

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I asked gpt for code to aim a heliostat

    It needed a module to get the sun's position, it used sun::alt:: azimuth which doesn't exist rather than Astro::Coord::ECI::Sun

    It needed a module to calculate mirror angle between the Sun's altitude and azimuth and the target altitude and azimuth. It left that commented out rather than selecting the altitude halfway between Sun and target and azimuth between Sun and azimuth

    It turns out there's precious little on the internet on how to aim a mirror, partly because it's not popular, partly because it's dead simple

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