• r00ty
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      195 months ago

      I think they call algorithms AI these days. At least I caught one of our VPs saying that a few months ago.

      • haui
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        55 months ago

        I think the vast majority of people has no idea how coding works, doesnt know what an algorithm does and is oblivious to the fact that AI isnt everything its hyped to be.

      • @ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        25 months ago

        I had a manager 10 years ago tell me we should start using these “API” things he had just read about. A conspicuously non-technical manager, obviously.

  • @twoshoes@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I work in IT. My boss is by all accounts very competent in both programming and administration, yet all his documentation basically says “remember to set DoTheRightThing=True”

    Edit: I just looked up the documentation for an internal service and under “Error recovery” it just says “The output of command xy should make sense”. fml

      • @xthexder@l.sw0.com
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        85 months ago

        Damn, I must’ve been missing this in my code the whole time.

        Not even joking, I’ve got a project that crashes the MSVC linker with “Internal compiler error occurred” like 1 out of every 5 builds.

        • r00ty
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          65 months ago

          Back in the olde days of programming (I’m talking about compilers from the 80s) the coding connoisseur knew that getting a certain error that seemed like nonsense could easily be solved by adding an extra, or removing a remark line from the top of the code and recompiling.