• chickenf622@sh.itjust.works
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    19 hours ago

    The high variance is why I only use it for dead simple tasks, e.g. “create and array of US states abbreviations in JavaScript”, otherwise I’m in full agreement with you. If you can’t verify the output is correct the it’s useless.

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      1 hour ago

      Wouldn’t that be slower to do, simply because checking it got all states, didn’t repeat any and didn’t make up any would be slower than copying a list from the web and quickly turning that into an array by hand with multiline cursors?

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      10 hours ago

      That’s like one web search and then one shell command. You can probably just copy paste a column of a table from wikipedia and then run a simple search/replace in your text editor. Why are you feeding the orphan crushing machine for this?

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        6 hours ago

        Because its .01% easier to do this.

        Also many people laugh at you if you try to say how ai is destroying the environment for no reason. Doesn’t affect them, you go live in a cave you luddite!