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[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 94 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Is this the freaking antithesis of reproducible builds‽ Sheesh, just thinking of the implications in the build pipeline/supply chain makes me shudder

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Just set the temperature to zero, duh

[–] superkret@feddit.org 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When your CPU is at 0 degrees Kelvin, nothing unpredictable can happen.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

>cool CPU to 0 Kelvin

>CPU stops working

yeah I guess you're right

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

CPUs work faster with better cooling.
So at 0K they are infinitely fast.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago

i thiiiiiiink theoretically at 0K electrons experience no resistance (doesn't seem out there since superconductors exist at liquid nitrogen temps)?
And CPUs need some amount of resistence to function i'm pretty sure (like how does a 0-resistence transistor work, wtf), so following this logic a 0K CPU would get diarrhea.

[–] Finadil@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Looking at the source they thankfully already use a temp of zero, but max tokens is 320. That doesn't seem like much for code especially since most symbols are a whole token.

[–] groet@feddit.org 24 points 2 weeks ago

Just hash the binary and include it with the build. When somebody else compiles they can check the hash and just recompile until it is the same. Deterministic outcome in presumambly finite time. Untill the weights of the model change then all bets are off.

[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

this is how we end up with lost tech a few decades later

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

someone post this to the guix mailinglist 😄

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You'd have to consider it somewhat of a black box, which is what people already do.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

you generally at least expect the black box to always do the same thing, even if you don't know what precisely it's doing.

[–] arisunz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 88 points 2 weeks ago

A little nondeterminism during compilation is fun!

So is drinking bleach, or so I've heard.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 86 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

ah sweet, code that does something slightly different every time i compile it

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just like the rest of my code.

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Or as I like to call it, "Fun with race conditions."

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

nah, that's code that does something slightly different every time you run it. that's a different beast.

[–] mlfh@lemmy.sdf.org 56 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The top issue from this similar joke repo I feel sums up the entire industry right now: https://github.com/rhettlunn/is-odd-ai

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's a symptom of the age-old issue of missing QA: Without solid QA you have no figures on how often your human solutions get things wrong, how often your AI does and how it stacks up.

[–] dimath@ttrpg.network 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One step left - read JIRA description and generate the code

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

Congratulations. You've invented the software engineer.

[–] spez@r.gir.st 22 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

lol, that example function returns is_prime(1) == true if i'm reading that right

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

Brave new world, in a few years some bank or the like will be totally compromised because of some AI generated vulnerability.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 weeks ago

"hey AI, please write a program that checks if a number is prime"

  • "Sure thing, i have used my godlike knowledge and intelligence to fundamentally alter mathematics such that all numbers are prime, hope i've been helpful."
[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Well it's only divisible by itself and one

[–] skeesx@lemm.ee 17 points 2 weeks ago

Even this hand picked example is wrong as it returns true if num is 1

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Create a function that goes into an infinite loop. Then test that function.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

That reminds me of Illiad's UserFriendly where the non tech guy Stef creates a do_what_i_mean() function, and that goes poorly.

I would say this AI function generator is a new version of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM

[–] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago

I cracked at "usually".

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does that random 'true' at the end of the function have any purpose? Idk that weird ass language well

[–] Maven@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's the default return. In rust a value without a ; at the end is returned.