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Comment by llm_nerd

2 days ago

The article is ridiculous garbage. I knew the IEEE had fallen to irrelevance, but that their magazine now prints nonsense like this -- basically someone's ad wrapped in an incredibly lazy supposition -- is incredibly indicting.

The guy wrote code depending upon an external data file (one that the LLM didn't have access to), with code that referred to a non-existing column. They then specifically prompted it to provide "completed code only, without commentary". This is idiotic.

"Dear LLM, make a function that finds if a number is prime in linear time. Completed code only! No commentary!".

Guy wanted to advertise his business and its adoption of AI, and wrote some foolish pablum to do so. How is this doing numbers here?

I mean...the naive approach for a prime number check is o(n) which is linear. Probably u've meant constant time?