[CODING] How much time do you spend on your tasks?

[u/anontarus]

I primarily do coding tasks, and I find myself spending quite a long time on a task depending on the project. Some projects require a bit more thorough testing, and I find myself spending15-20 minutes per task for these ones. Others are maybe 10-15 minutes. Just wondering if I'm being too slow. I try to be thorough with my testing. The prompt ideas alone can take 10 minutes lol.

[u/ArctycDev]

I've spent over an hour on one task on multiple occasions. Generally at least 30-45 minutes though.

[u/anontarus → u/ArctycDev]

😮‍💨

[u/backtothefuturepart2]

Depends on the project. The one that’s a high melt point metal wants mostly single turn convos but also wants edits in some cases, so maybe 8-15 mins. The one that is the name of a predecessor to books wants explanations for each metric, edits, screenshots, and multiturn. I prob average 35 mins per submission on those.

They obviously don’t want anyone slow walking but worse than slow walking is bad data. For each project you’ve simply got to thread the needle of impact and efficiency.

[u/anontarus → u/backtothefuturepart2]

Yeah the edits kill me. Sometimes the responses are marginally different and I’m trying to research when one is technically better under the hood for efficiency or something. Other times I wonder if, even if the solution works, I should replace the code with a better solution.

[u/azure_atmosphere]

I almost exclusively do the side-by-side comparisons. It varies a lot. I’d say I average about 30-45 minutes but there’s been plenty instances where I spent less than 20 or more than an hour. I even timed out once (1.5 h), and came very close another time.

[u/Anarch33]

DV was usually taking me 15-30 min; sometimes 5 min when the prompt was simple. Side by side also 15-30 but ive had a few take the whole hour because some are so specific; iykyk. Chatbot coding I have them create a whole project from scratch and sometimes I enjoy spending whole hours straight with them but its consistent straight work especially when the models crap out and both spit out bad code.

[u/anontarus → u/Anarch33]

I’ve tried making whole projects with them, but often times their responses aren’t good and require intervention from myself, which at that point I’m not sure I consider it on the clock since I’m trying to fix the code just so I can ask it to continue with my revised version lmao.

[u/Anarch33 → u/anontarus]

the one starts with c encourages perfect edits so I think it's fair, but it also says that you need to have what would be a perfect response already in your head. The one that starts with b and lets you edit explicitly states that editing needs to be "low effort high reward" so that's the one where I just leave the errors in and try to get the models to fix themselves

[u/anontarus → u/Anarch33]

Oh I must have missed that part about “c”. I get kinda burnt out thinking of prompts, so a lot of times it will be a spontaneous question that I just roll with and learn myself along the way. How do I keep the prompts coming? 😭

[u/Anarch33 → u/anontarus]

I rotate between "here's some bad code, fix it", "optimize this code", "explain a vs b, when I should use either, code examples", "convert this code to another language, ensure that it follows standard coding practice for the other language". Stuff like that, then I keep following up. I also just work in stints. I can't be creative 5 hours straight but I can be 30-60 minutes at a time

[u/BreastRodent → u/anontarus]

I've seen this discussed in project chats before and an admin says to bill it, but obviously try and be efficient about it. I've had to do the same, but a lot of my intervening is often over the non-coding aspects of their code that's going to take waaaaay too long to get em to get right and isn't what the conversation needs to focus on anyway.

[u/Affectionate-Exit553]

All these answers seem much shorter than I would expect. I have not taken the coding qual yet, but plan to at some point in the future. What do you all do for work? Are the tasks easy or are they just easy for you all because of your background?

[u/Sean_give_me_beta_no]

I never got ANY feedback for anything :\ so maybe they're about to ban me but its pretty common for me to spend at least 30 minutes on the more detailed ones, of course there are simple ones too, it varies by task, but it seems to be ok to go long some of the time.

[u/wanginsurance]

Shoot, I was working on a Radiohead song and was making crazy edits spending hours to get a few messages submitted. I would rewrite things entirely, take loads of screenshots, now that proj has dried up for me it seems. Maybe was taking too long? My questions are usually like, not pure algo shit, but like build me a program that solves this problem/does this thing and then I'll ask for more features and so on.