Lance Fortnow

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Lance Fortnow


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Does ChatGPT really help programmers?

 
BILL: I honestly do not know whether ChatGPT will make programmers more productive. (I am not touching question of whether it puts programmers out of work. That's a problem for Future Bill.) Who can I ask? I found two people who disagree on the issue:

Alice who supports developers in industry. She doesn't write code full time now, but she has written plenty before. She thinks that NO, ChatGPT and

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Published on November 30, 2025 18:14
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The Golden Ticket: P, NP, a...

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“Suppose whatever we can recognize we can find. We can if P=NP.”
Lance Fortnow, The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible

“Diffie and Hellman suggested such a system, but their protocol is not as commonly used as a scheme discovered by three computer scientists, Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman, in 1978 and named “RSA” after them.”
Lance Fortnow, The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible



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