“then” is used to depict time, sequence or a causal relationship. “than” is used with comparative adjectives, to depict comparison.

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  • So I don’t find coding challenge sites/events fun, but a few years ago, I thought it might be nice to try out ChatGPT on it.
    Although I exited after the first question itself, I did get to evaluate ChatGPT at the point (3, I suppose).

    I simply pasted the whole question into ChatGPT and it spewed out code which was a pretty good match for what was required.
    But no matter how many types of prompts I tried (even giving the solution logic to the part that was wrong), that specific part of the output was always wrong.

    On the other hand, when I manually corrected the C code and gave it to convert to C++, it ended up working on the first try (I didn’t even read that output).
    I then tried converting the correct code to Rust and I don’t remember what I did with the output, but it surely didn’t pass the assessment.






  • I can use CAD. I am an engineer.
    But noone will ask me to draft a building design on AutoCAD, same as noone will ask me to do so with pencil and paper.
    Because I don’t know buildings.

    Sure, I might be asked to copy a pen-paper drawing onto CAD, but a Civil Engineer with CAD will do that better and a photo tracing software might do it as well as me.

    So while a good enough LLM might code as well as a coder, Programming is more than just coding and making anything new, requires programming.




  • where I, an average user, needs so long to find such a basic function

    I am not sure about that.
    The default UI is similar to the old MS Office Word and the new alternative (which from what I remember, LibreOffice actually asks you to choose from in a dialogue on first start, so you don’t need to look through menus to set your preference) uses the newer tabbed paradigm.

    And while I do prefer the new one, I didn’t find the old one any harder than MS Office Word 2003 or the older version that came around Win 98.

    The only thing that made me different from the average user back then, was that I actually read and understood user prompts before clicking “Next” or whatever.