ChatGPT Can Do Astonishing Things. But Is It a Helpful Development Tool?

ARM’s Scalable Vector Extensions: A Critical Look at SVE2 For Integer Workloads

Copied Avoid frostbite: Stop doing code freezes

Raysterizer, a framework that transforms OpenGL programs to instead use raytracing

Issue #307

12/13/2022

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Howdy hoo
I was hoping to close on a big software development contract before the year's end, but unfortunately it's looking like that won't be happening until January. Bummer. Would've been a nice early holiday gift.
Anyway, here's the issue.

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ChatGPT Can Do Astonishing Things. But Is It a Helpful Development Tool?

Published: 12 December 2022
Tags: ai, philosophy

Mattsi Jansky discusses some of the limitations of ChatGPT. I personally agree with his conclusion that it'll eventually become a tool used by people writing code to accelerate development, but will still require careful scrutiny. Now that I think of it, sounds like it could also have an application for helping newbies learn to review code.
Some highlights:

  • Has no access to internet (so no real-time data)
  • It usually produces incorrect or buggy code that requires careful scrutiny
  • It takes what you say literally and isn't great with context


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ARM’s Scalable Vector Extensions: A Critical Look at SVE2 For Integer Workloads

Published: 16 July 2022
Tags: cpu, low level

ARM’s Scalable Vector Extensions (SVE) is the latest SIMD extension to their instruction set, announced in 2016 with a follow-up SVE2 extension announced in 2019.
Some highlights:

  • SVE2 is designed to incorporate all functionality from ARM’s current primary SIMD extension, NEON (aka ASIMD)
  • There is currently no generally available CPU which supports any form of SVE (which excludes the Fugaku supercomputer as well)
  • "SVE2’s main selling point over NEON - the ability to have >128-bit vectors on ARM - will likely not eventuate on many processor configurations for quite some time"


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Copied Avoid frostbite: Stop doing code freezes

Published: 11 November 2021
Tags: management, philosophy, sponsored

FireHydrant explains some of the negative consequences of halting changes to your codebase and environments in an effort to reduce the risk of an outage over the holidays.


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Raysterizer, a framework that transforms OpenGL programs to instead use raytracing

Published: 4 December 2022
Tags: graphics

Henry Zhu introduces Raysterizer (Ray-ster-izer), a framework that transforms existing real-time graphical applications using rasterization to use ray tracing instead, and dives into how it works.
Some highlights:

  • Impres the graphics quality of existing programs with new methods for rendering
  • Modders could use Raysterizer to easily enhance how a game looks
  • Graphics programmers can use the tool to run and test their ray tracing shaders on a variety of existing games to see how well the shader performs and looks


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How did I do?

* Amazing
* Articles not relevant to me
* Articles were relevant, but badly written
* Summaries told me everything I wanted to know
* I like turtles

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