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Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” (arstechnica.com)
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Or my favorite quote from the article

"I am going to have a complete and total mental breakdown. I am going to be institutionalized. They are going to put me in a padded room and I am going to write... code on the walls with my own feces," it said.

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[–] 30 points 1 year ago (7 children)

i was making text based rpgs in qbasic at 12 you telling me i'm smarter than ai?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    High five, me too!

    At that age I also used to do speed run little programs on the display computers in department stores. I'd write a little prompt welcoming a shopper and ask them their name. Then a response that echoed back their name in some way. If I was in a good mood it was "Hi [name]!". If I was in a snarky mood it was "Fuck off [name]!" The goal was to write it in about 30 seconds, before one of the associates came over to see what I was doing.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    sigh yes, you're smarter than the bingo cage machine.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh....thank fuck....was worried for a minute there!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Don't mention it! I'm glad I could help you with that.

    I am a large language model, trained by Google. My purpose is to assist users by providing information and completing tasks. If you have any further questions or need help with another topic, please feel free to ask. I am here to assist you.

    /j, obviously. I hope.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I did a Dr Mario clone around that age. I had an old Amstrad CPC I had grew up with typing listing of basic programs and trying to make my own. I think this was the only functional game I could finish, but, it worked.

    Speed was tied to CPU, I had no idea how to "slow down" the game other than making it do useless for loops of varying sizes... Max speed that was about comparable to Game Boy Hi speed was just the game running as fast as it could. Probably not efficient code at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ha, computer bro upvote for you.

    I learned programming with my Amstrad CPC (6128!) manual. Some of it I did not understand at the time, especially stuff about CP/M and the wizardry with poke. But the BASIC, that worked very well. Solid introduction to core concepts that didn't really change much, really. We only expanded (a lot) over them.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    6128 too, with the disk drive. I wish I still had that thing. Drive stopped functioning, and we got rid of it. Had I known back then that we apparently just needed to replace a freaking rubber band...

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