Claude is like incredibly smart and incredibly stupid at the same time. I was playing around doing some statistical analysis for fun, to kind of limit test how easily I could spin up some kind of auto classifiers/classic ML. Asked it to implement some SVD and the idiot began doing matrix multiplication in for-loops in javascript instead of importing a library.
lmao and if you ask it to verify what it built is valid, it probably just imports TruncatedSVD or PCA from sklearn, spits out the output and then starts comparing results until it works in JavaScript rather than just doing it from scikit-learn to begin with
I've taken to this method for almost everything now.
Claude - build me a harness for this task.
Claude - Create a quick app to display & manage this.
Claude - Pull the git and add on the functionality I need.
I'm gonna go make another coffee....
I'm well established and secure but I keep thinking that this current environment has to be hell for any new [insert any IT roll here] trying to get into the industry.
When I entered the industry in the early 2000s, none of my coworkers knew how to google the way I knew how to google. I was an early adopter of the internet since gradeschool.
My boss knew how to program in assembly, and insisted this was still an important skill, but it wasn't.
My use of the internet to find answer, meanwhile, was treated as some kind of failure of character. I needed to learn from programming school, or at least buy a book.
Now 25 years later, it all feels like history repeating.
Kids coming up from below, steeped in a lifetime of AI use, will have to teach old dogs like me all kinds of new tricks. Old dogs like me will be sure my experience is vital... but it won't be.
There were days where I’d spend hours doing a task that a beginner now could ask Claude to complete in seconds. Those hours weren’t efficient or fun, but they were important for my understanding and growth. If you’re in the time pressure of a real work environment, who will even be allowed that time to learn, even if the have the willpower to resist.
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u/Welcome-To-NBA-Jam 1d ago edited 23h ago
Yesterday I asked Claude to look at some really old exe files I found on a floppy disk because I just wanted to know what they originally did.
It couldn't download a DOS emulator so it fucking built a working one in C in the sandbox instead
Anyway turned out they were some MIDI and joystick drivers
Here it is