Anatoly Yakovenko posted that AI solves many math problems while staying poor at coding, calling this a sign of wasted PhD output over two decades. Salvatore Sanfilippo replied that solved problems can still help users study solution steps. Ben Dickson wrote that AI agents finish expert work quickly but leave users having learned nothing. Other replies highlighted cleaner training data in scientific research versus messier coding or statistics sources.
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X users note AI solves math tasks yet remains weak at coding tasks.
Anatoly Yakovenko posted that AI solves many math problems while staying poor at coding, calling this a sign of wasted PhD output over two decades. Salvatore Sanfilippo replied that solved problems can still help users study solution steps. Ben Dickson wrote that AI agents finish expert work quickly but leave users having learned nothing. Other replies highlighted cleaner training data in scientific research versus messier coding or statistics sources.
Elias Stråvik@eliasstravikset up omarchy mac on my m1 and it didn’t support external monitors. astra wrote a patch that fixed it in 20min. holy shit.
Ben Dickson@bendee983Congrats. With AI agents, you solved a problem that would have required hours (or days) of work from an expert. The trade off is that you learned nothing. This will be the big challenge of AI: move fast and get things done, or move slower and learn things (you can still use AI…
toly 🇺🇸@tolyHow dumb ai is still at coding and how many math problems is solving is an indication of how useless the glut of phds was over the last two decades.
Umberto | Mostly Data 🧙♂️@MostlyData_@toly It's easier to avoid using trash data to train a model if the source is scientific research, especially rigorous one with a very well defined structure. This is why somehow it seems good for math problems, but it is so dumb for coding or statistics or bias detection.
ib@Indian_BronsonThe inability of machine intelligence trained on human efforts to write prose in a way that is truly persuasive - or is just not supremely annoying - while it making quick work of our hardest mathematics problems says something funny about human beings
antirez@antirezThat's an incredibly narrow view. If AI can solve something earlier it can also be used in order to study understandable steps towards the solution faster. You are a lot more adjecent to what you seek if you already have a solution you can model, simplify, study.
Replies largely agreed AI still falls short at coding and storytelling compared to humans, while positive accounts highlighted quick productivity wins like monitor patches and others warned against over-delegating thinking to AI.
Based on 33 sentiment-bearing replies from 29 accounts across 4 conversations.
Elias Stråvik@eliasstravikset up omarchy mac on my m1 and it didn’t support external monitors. astra wrote a patch that fixed it in 20min. holy shit.
Andreas Bylund@devbylund@eliasstravik Crazy times we live in!
Johnny Tran@JohnnetrTran@eliasstravik Stop it, I can't focus on högskoleprovet when you hype this thing.
Elias Stråvik@eliasstravik@JohnnetrTran bro make an omarchy plugin for it and become a billionaire - problem solved
Johnny Tran@JohnnetrTran@eliasstravik Omarchy for iphone, ship and sell. No mistakes, dangerously skip permission.
Elias Stråvik@eliasstravik@JohnnetrTran gonna sue you for infringement on my ideas on this one chief
Replies largely agreed AI still falls short at coding and storytelling compared to humans, while positive accounts highlighted quick productivity wins like monitor patches and others warned against over-delegating thinking to AI.
Based on 33 sentiment-bearing replies from 29 accounts across 4 conversations.
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