I make myself stand out by phrasing it as “my google-fu is strong.”

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If you apply for Microsoft, you gotta say bing-fu.

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I’ve had a person not get what is google-fu

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Holy hell!

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New job skill just dropped

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“Prompt Engineering”: AKA explaining to Chat GPT why it’s wrong a dozen times before it spits out a useable (but still not completely correct) answer.

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That’s actually a valid skill to know when to tell the AI that it’s wrong.

A few months ago, I had to talk to my juniors to think critically about the shitty code that AI was generating. I was getting sick of clearly copy-pasted code from chatGPT and the junior not knowing what the fuck they were submitting to code review.

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I’m trying to convince a senior developer from the team I’m a member of, to stop using copilot. They have committed code that they didn’t understand (only tested to verify it does what it’s expected to do). I doubt it’d succeed…

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Co-pilot is amazing and terrible at the same time.

When it’s suggesting the exact line of code I expect to write, amazing. When it can build the permissions I need for a service account for a TF module I’ve written, amazing

However, it will suggest poorly formed, un-optimized code all too often.

That said, knowing when to use/not use/modify the suggested code has greatly improved my productivity and consistency.

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Should start asking them like, why did you do this? Why did you chose this method? To make them sweat :p

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That used to make sense when LLMs were not the thing, when evaluating assessments from students, half of which asked someone else and didn’t bother to even read the code

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If there exists an answer, as gpt will tell you the answer exists till the very end, even when it’s not so

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A few years ago… Okay over a decade ago 🤕 Google offered a free course on “googling” with a certificate for completion. You’re damn straight I put that on my resume. Of course they’ve disabled half the tricks they taught us but now.

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To be fair you could call this “search optimisation” and the people on Linkedin would eat this up

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I might actually put this under my skills. I’m fairly good at googlefu.

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Or prompt engineering.

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