I'm seeing the opposite: high performing developers who I respect adding these tools to their workflow and gaining performance as a result What have you learned that makes you think they are bad for beginners?
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AI Makes Programming Learning Curve Less Steep and Accessible
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I've seen many people give up on learning to program entirely because that struggle is so miserable – I'm excited that we have a learning curve that's less of an impenetrable cliff now
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ChatGPT State Leaking: File Upload Security Vulnerability Across Sessions
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Yeah, state leaking is definitely starting to show up with some of these tools A nasty one is that files you upload to ChatGPT are available across multiple sessions where you might expect a blank slate, and I think that exposes them to conversations with GPTs too (unless fixed)
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Python Library Complexity for Direct HTTP Calls to Gemini
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I know Python really well and I still don't like to have to reverse engineer their Python libraries to figure out how to make a direct HTTP call! I had to do that for Gemini just last week
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Sweagent vs Devin: Speed Trade-offs and Feature Gaps
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i did end up trying sweagent. its definitely faster but also very very workflow specific to making pr’s for issues. needs a lot more work to have the iterative feedback flow of devin. opendevin seems to be closer, but doesnt have browsing yet https://t.co/NXXSggMdyi
— swyx 🐣 (@swyx) 14 avril 2024i did end up trying sweagent. its definitely faster but also very very workflow specific to making pr’s for issues. needs a lot more work to have the iterative feedback flow of devin. opendevin seems to be closer, but doesnt have browsing yet
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Devin Livestream Challenge: Comparing Devin, OpenDevin, and SWE Agent
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lots of comments from 1 viral youtube from another guy who also hasnt tried devin at all haha. @GergelyOrosz we can livestream to try it out if u want, i got the go ahead to do it, theyre not scared just watch my devin vs opendevin vs swe agent livestream to understand how
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End to End Latency vs Opus Weaviate Embeddings
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whats end to end latency? vs just opus + weaviate + embeddings
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Using Large Language Models: A Year-Long Series Guide
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A year later here's my series of posts about this https://
simonwillison.net/series/using-l
lms/
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