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0 pointsmvieira3811mo ago0 comments

Overreliance on intellisense does worsen your abilities, though, especially when dealing with complex packages and APIs. So does stack overflow. In my domain of data science and finance, it is VERY noticeable when someone doesn't actually understand how Pandas and Numpy work, for example, and how to write good vectorized solutions to their problems

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__mharrison__11mo ago

It doesn't help that AI generally creates very mediocre Pandas code (based on a lot of the training data showing mediocre practices).

sitkack11mo ago

Pandas is a very difficult api to use correctly and a huge swath of programs that the AIs have trained on was "programmed by accident" meaning people just typed stuff at it until they got the output they wanted.

To offset all the bad code, you would have to make a Pandas fine tune and/or ablate the bad Pandas from the weights.

DontchaKnowit11mo ago

Does anyone have good reference material on learning how to use pandas effectively and understanding the api as a whole?

Any time ive had to use pandas I am shocked at how convuluted and opaque the docs are, and end up just hacking away till something wirks alright.

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ericyd11mo ago

You might be right that intellisense is to blame, but my suspicion is that some people are just worse at writing code and it isn't really about the available tools.

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