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0 pointssim7c0011mo ago0 comments

you guys are not wrong. explain any semi complez program, you will instantly resort to diagrams, tables, flow charts etc. etc.

ofcourse, you can get your LLM to be bit evil in its replies, to help you truly. rather than to spoon feed you an unhealthy diet.

i forbid my LLM to send me code and tell it to be harsh to me if i ask stupid things. stupid as in, lazy questions. send me the link to the manual/specs with an RTFM or something i can digest and better my undertanding. send links not mazes of words.

now i can feel myself grow again as a programmer.

as you said. you need to build expertise, not try to find ways around it.

with that expertise you can find _better_ ways. but for this, firstly, you need the expertise.

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azernik11mo ago

If you don't mind sharing - what's the specific prompt you use to get this to happen, and which LLM do you use it with?

artifaxx11mo ago

I can share a similar approach I'm finding beneficial. I add "Be direct and brutally honest in your feedback. Identify assumptions and cognitive biases to correct for." (I also add a compendium of cognitive biases and examples to the knowledge I give the LLM.

jjmarr11mo ago

The rudest and most aggressive LLM I've used is Deepseek. Most LLMs have trained-in positivity bias but I can prompt Deepseek to tell me my code is shit very easily.

tonnydourado11mo ago

Of all the things I heard about deep seek that's the one that has motivated me the most to try it out XD

eszed11mo ago

Ha! This is so much the difference between American and Chinese culture.

By way of illustration, in my earlier career as an actor one of my favorite ever directors to work with was a woman from a Chinese culture (a very, very successful artist, indeed a celebrity, in her home country) whose style was incredibly blunt, and always helpful. She'd interrupt you in full flow with: "No, no. That shit. Try like _____". Or my favorite instance (and just to set the scene: at the time I weighed 165 lbs, could run all day, and stand under a doorframe and lift a foot up to touch the lintel without bending my knee - I was fucking fit, is my point) we were reviewing costumes, and she says "[eszed] not that shirt! Make you look fat." Which, well, yeah: I'm the guy who no matter my body-fat keeps a little roll around my middle - visible abs were never in my genetic cards. I thanked her, and wore something looser.

As you say, American positivity bias won't allow that sort of feedback. I find it bracing.

handfuloflight11mo ago

Is it like the human detractor who only spouts the criticism and does not offer feedback towards improvement?

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