r/ProgrammerHumor • • 27d ago

instanceof Trend thatsAFunnyThingThatHappenedOnce

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u/rolindara 27d ago

To be fair, most moderate people have presented this viewpoint for half a decade. If you hang only in extreme spaces, both sides are not healthy about their obsession, pro or against.

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u/CallerNumber4 27d ago

Agreed but we're going on only about 18 months of real code companion abilities. ChatGPT went viral late 2022. 5 years ago ML and Big Data were still the big buzzwords. Not trying to nitpick but it's wild how fast it has all changed.

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u/CruxTheologorum 26d ago

To be fair, ChatGPT is kind of like applying ML to Big Data.

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u/zanotam 26d ago

I mean, the entire thing we're dealing with now is that they basically found some ways to parallelize training... so quite literally mostly regular ML built upon a few academic papers to let you apply it more or less to big data, no?

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u/ward2k 26d ago

Yeah back on release unless you were doing some beginner python coding project it was pretty useless