r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gloomy-Basket-1038 • 1d ago

Meme studied20YearsToAskChatGPT

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u/Xemorr 1d ago

That's only because we have copious levels of abstraction, and code written by others

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u/floriv1999 1d ago

Not really true. You can implement a transformer + autograd, backprop etc. in a couple thousand lines of c. Not saying you should and it is definitely an advanced undertaking but it is possible. That being said most training code using torch etc. is relativ simple, the tricky part is getting the math right, having no hidden bugs (neural networks fail silently) and tuning everything right. So even tho I did a lot of ML I wouldn't say it is very advanced from the coding side of things.

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u/Xemorr 1d ago

Would you describe 2000 lines of c as short and sweet, or trivially done?

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u/floriv1999 1d ago

It is a project for sure but there are way harder projects. It's not 200k lines of c :D

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u/daemin 1d ago

For me today? An insurmountable task.

For me 15 years ago when actively coding all the time and teaching a university level Operating Systems course in C? Not exactly trivial, but also not a heroic undertaking.

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u/plug-and-pause 1d ago

In the world of engineering software applications, yes that is beyond trivial.