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Casey Liss

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Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And what else should I be looking at?

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

What are their algorithms?

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

What other techniques should I be using to make to achieve these things to make them sound good?

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

and it will generate it for you.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

I know this because I have done that with other types of algorithms.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

I have asked ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude to generate me code to do some kind of relatively, I even asked it like, here's the kind of problem I'm trying to solve.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

What algorithm should I be looking at?

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And it'll give me a nice overview of six different algorithms to solve this problem, what the trade-offs of each ones are, what the performance is.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And then I'll say, do you want me to generate this for you in Swift?

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

I'll say, yeah, sure.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And then it generates it for me in Swift.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And I think there's no way this is going to work.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And then I try and it works.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Already, the value of like proprietary custom techniques and tricks that you do is plummeting.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

I should be really upset about that.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And on some level, that is kind of a shame.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

But also on another level, this other problem I was trying to solve, I just got the answer and I had to move on.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

That's incredibly powerful that there's all these different algorithms that like, you

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

I could have figured out the algorithm to do it the sophisticated way.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

It would have taken me a day or more, and I might have gotten the algorithm wrong, and I might have had weird bugs as a result, or I might do something in a relatively straightforward, naive approach that might have a really efficient algorithm that I'm not going to ever think of or know about, but the AI knows about it.