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[–] renzev@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Jokes aside, LLMs are actually pretty nice, since they lower the barrier to entry for programming. A guy I know has been doing all of his data processing with obscure Excel hacks his entire life. But recently he had to parse a file with like a million or so lines, which would take forever in excel, so now he's hacking together a python script using ChatGPT and meta ai. And in the process, he's actually picking up a bit of python knowledge himself. He now knows what lists are, how loops and if statements work, and he even understands "intermediate" features like list comprehension and regex. They said llms would replace programmers, but in reality they're making more of us lol

[–] enbyecho@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

recently he had to parse a file with like a million or so lines, which would take forever in excel ... so now he’s hacking together a python script using ChatGPT and meta ai.

Has your friend heard of SQL? And you know, databases?

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He's recording the extracted data into a MongoDB database, yes!

[–] enbyecho@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago