So Steve brought this up on github (I deleted my responses) and was talking about using AI generated code. I met some people that tried to use AI generated code to build a website, but couldn’t deploy because lack of programming experience (could not debug, it was a mystery). But if we can use it t…

[image] spinkney: my mind is revolting against the facade I recently started reading the Dune novels for the first time, and the fictional history of that story including a literal revolt against computers didn’t feel quite as alien as I imagine it would have to me at one point in time

Hi, @drezap . Do you have a link to @stevebronder ’s comments? I believe the Stan Governing Body @SGB is in the process of working out guidelines for AI usage. I had been using AI for just about everything these days. I used it for all of my plotting and data munging. I almost always used it as a…

I use it a lot for things I don’t have much experience with but need done or as a reviewer. Another thing I use it for is prototyping. A lot of the code written for my binary Stan format proposal was written by Opus for example. But you can’t just blindly let it do it’s thing yet in my experience. …

[image] Bob_Carpenter: I had been using AI for just about everything these days. I used it for all of my plotting and data munging. I almost always used it as a code reviewer during development and before submitting a PR. I used it all the time to explain libraries I don’t understand and also to…

That’s a very different application than writing code though. If I want to communicate something, I write it myself. But if I want to build something, I use tools and that can include an llm.

I love this conversation and look forward to seeing the guidelines the SCB proposes. I’m also looking forward to seeing how the use of AI is author-reported in publication. I’ve used AI over the past year primarily for model framework. This is useful, but I do always feel a little over my head and …

Here’s a link to Steve’s Issue: Add AI_POLICY.md opened 05:11PM - 26 Feb 26 UTC (UTC) [image] SteveBronder I'm very pro ai coding, but I think having …

[image] spinkney: I often feel repulsed by AI generated content Me, too! Especially the image slop that everyone seems to be pasting into their presentations and web pages. But even the image generators can generate nice images if you put some work into it. I use them outside of work for r…

This is good to hear, and I’ll be happy to be wrong about this. Maybe as you suggest the key is more a change in workflow, perhaps thinking of AI as more of an intelligent but somewhat unreliable narrator and using the output as a prompt to dig deeper into the fundamentals.

But then in practice, for example, in biostatistics, there’s no known solution, and even solutions I’ve seen in papers on “unsolved problems,” they use methods that scale extremely poorly, for example combinatorial variable selection. Has any one tried to use this? Or does this have to be an entirel…

Moreover, isn’t agentic AI just a positive feedback loop (which can be prohibitive)? I can’t find anything I’m looking for on Google anymore. It’s more, additive interference than productivity. Any information assistance? This is driving me crazy. It’s like search engines have become useless all of…

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Oh found something relavent…. Custom chatgpt for coding in Stan

whoops sorry the discourse GUI changed… I was on the same legacy code base for a while…

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