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This was pretty much my first experience with LLM code generation when these things first came out.

It's still a present issue whenever I go light on prompt details and I _always_ get caught out by it and it _always_ infuriates me.

I'm sure there are endless discussions on front running overconfident false positives and being better at prompting and seeding a project context, but 1-2 years into this world is like 20 in regular space, and it shouldn't be happening any more.


Often times I come up with a prompt, then stick the prompt in an LLM to enhance / identify what I’ve left out, then finally actually execute the prompt.


Cite things from ID based specs. You’re facing a skill issue. The reason most people don’t see it as such is because an LLM doesn’t just “fail to run” here. If this was code you wrote in a compiled language, would you post and say the language infuriates you because it won’t compile your syntax errors? As this kind of dev style becomes prevalent and output expectation adjust, work performance review won’t care that you’re mad. So my advice is:

1. Treat it like regular software dev where you define tasks with ID prefixes for everything, acceptance criteria, exceptions. Ask LLM to reference them in code right before impl code

2. “Debug” by asking the LLM to self reflect on its decision making process that caused the issue - this can give you useful heuristics o use later to further reduce the issues you mentioned.

“It” happening is a result of your lack of time investment into systematically addressing this.

_You_ should have learned this by now. Complain less, learn more.


I had my highest appraisals and biggest bonuses when I didn't do the job I was hired to do.

I was assigned to help team members on the lowest rungs of "performance" metrics. My stats went to shit.

Some teammates smashed it, others didn't. My influence and pay increased and nothing felt right.

Ended up leaving the best org of the company because I couldn't (at the time) understand what was happening.

IMO, looking back, as amazing and 'right' as this scenario feels (OP and myself), it needs the full support of the entire company to make it work.


This is exactly how it does it. The entire conversation (including bot responses) is part of the payload on each new input/message request.



Yet there it is at the top of HN.


Ridiculous that this has a crypto label. It's the same game as all of the senior people I know who have been hit with fake anti virus, fake software updates, fake banking apps etc.

Start small and harmless, take a small payment, request higher access, get a screen share or account password. Game over.


> Con man sells someone a bridge.

HN: bridges are a scam!


That's weird.. I don't recall feeling like it was a money thing that I had a Spectrum, only that my parents had made the 'wrong' call on a 50/50 decision (though I will forever be grateful for that early exposure to programming!)

Trying to search for local prices back then is tricky, but they look to have been in the same ballpark (£180-200).


This 1983 ad has the 48k Speccy at £129.95[0] and the C64 at £345[1]. Admittedly I think the C64 came down in price not too long after.

[0] https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1983-08/p...

[1] https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1983-08/p...


The spectrum was way cheaper than a C64.

The speccy had a launch price of £125 (£175 for the 48k version), the C64 launched at £399 in the UK.


The c64 peripherals we’re way more expensive too. Commodore had an official cassette player as well as a floppy disk drive that weren’t cheap. Though I suspect I in the long run probably spent more money on worn out joysticks


Sellers generate fake orders for their products using real identities, actually send the product to those people, but leave a fake review in their name.

I've tried raising the issue repeatedly with Amazon, but I've now given up and look forward to the random crap I get sent almost on a monthly basis.


I don't get it. Why do they have to send real product to the person if they're not relying on the receiver to write the review?

They could ship an empty box if they just needed a tracking number. If the customer isn't coming into the feedback loop, they don't need the product.


Because Amazon itself is usually handling the storage and shipping -- you can't pay Amazon to store empty boxes in its warehouses. (With perhaps one exception: https://www.amazon.com/Cheap-Moving-Boxes-10-Pack-10MPK/dp/B... )


Better idea: Only verified buyers who have been on Amazon for X amount of time (or some other process to gain trust) should be allowed to leave reviews.


I never experienced it myself, but I’ve seen reviews claiming they had a letter in their package that they’d get X currency if they leave a 5-star-review.


Sorta similar but different, I left a 3 star review for something (cheap headphones that were OK but not great), and got a few emails after it offering me credit etc. if I changed it to a 5 star review.

I didn't, but did report it to Amazon (no idea if they cared at all.)


Where do I sign up to get free random stuff sent to me from Amazon review farmers?


Ideally you don't.



I thought it was about Linear Discriminant Analysis..


Yes LDA surely has 2 popular meanings


It is.


no, it's not


You can, however, use Linear Discriminant Analysis on thr topic scores from Latent Dirichlet Allocation.....


I guess, if you have a fair amount of topics, although the point was to explain the title :)


FWIW you can host your own GitHub

https://enterprise.github.com


$21 a month per user.....to host it on my own hardware....no thanks. If I am hosting on my own hardware then you get a one-time-fee, none of this subscription nonsense.


glad I'm not the only one to find this subscription BS patently insulting.


You're not a 1Password user, are you? They are pushing the subscription model super hard.


and this is important because a good deal of tech companies rely on self-hosted GHE or hosted Github.


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