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Junior Dev VS Machine Learning (lemmy.world)
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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I too am confused about the decaf part.

[–] Maven@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's saying that instead of spending all the resources needed to gather all of the training data for the LLM, just give a junior dev some coffee as the input instead.

The direct comparison is input and output. Coffee/training data is the input and the code is the output.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But....Decaf?!

[–] Maven@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I didn't say it was a GOOD joke. I was just explaining what the joke was.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, yes. I'm just trying to "yes, and...".

[–] Maven@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Oh lol sorry. Tone is very hard to understand via text online.