mashbooq

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[–] mashbooq 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The one colleague using AI at my company produced (CUDA) code with lots of memory leaks that required two expert developers to fix. LLMs produce code based on vibes instead of following language syntax and proper coding practices. Maybe that would be ok in a more forgiving high level language, but I don't trust them at all for low level languages.

[–] mashbooq 18 points 11 months ago

School shootings? :shrug: Statues depicting the nude human form? "We must protect the children!" 🙄

[–] mashbooq 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you able to share what kinds of applications and what languages you write in? I'm still trying to grasp why LLM programming assistants seem popular despite the flaws I see in them, so I'm trying to understand the cases where they do work.

For example, my colleague was writing CUDA code to simulate optical physics, so it's possible that the LLM's failure was due in part to the niche application and a language that is unforgiving of deviations from the one correct way of writing things.

[–] mashbooq 11 points 11 months ago (9 children)

The only person in my company using AI to code writes stuff with tons of memory leaks that require two experienced programmers to fix. (To be fair, I don't think he included "don't have memory leaks" in the prompt.)

[–] mashbooq 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sigh, another major thinker who totally misunderstands LLMs and their capabilities. The fact that he cites Musk as a credible source on "AI" says it all.

[–] mashbooq 23 points 11 months ago

The 1950s called, they want their cultural milieu back

[–] mashbooq 55 points 11 months ago

The wealthy passengers shouldn't have depended on the crew to rescue them; that's socialism. They should just pull themselves out of the water by their bootstraps.

/s

[–] mashbooq 4 points 11 months ago

Who's said bye to DVDs?

[–] mashbooq 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I don't know much more about it. I think it might get disabled if your card doesn't use it or if your distro knows it causes problems, but I'm not sure. It doesn't seem like that's the problem in your case, anyway.

[–] mashbooq 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The nvidia driver package can install some systemd services; for example, my computer has a 'nvidia-persistenced' service running. In the past I've had trouble with them preventing suspend. You can list all running services with

systemctl list-units --type=service --state=active

If you do have some nvidia-* services running, you can check for weird behavior with

journalctl -u nvidia-persistenced

or by looking through the general journalctl logs to see if the service is doing anything when you try to suspend.

You can also search to see if your nvidia driver version is causing problems for anyone else with suspending.

[–] mashbooq 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Which nvidia services are running? I've had trouble with some of them keeping my computer from suspending before

[–] mashbooq 2 points 11 months ago

That's some fine pandemic special, just fine

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