Nocturne Songs

Sent a prompt, "can you program in C?"
She said "Baby, can't you see?
A totally human 10x engineer,
And what have you done in your career?"

Chorus:
Baby, you can run my code,
I am in my founder mode.
Baby, you can run my code,
And maybe I'll ping you.
Beep beep, 'm beep beep, yeah!
Git push, git push, yeah!

Can you program a self-driving car?
It doesn't have to get very far
Throw code together and push to prod
And if it crashes run the logs by Claude

(Chorus)

"Your code is ready, do you wanna deploy"
I say baby, don't play coy
"So what's the cluster, the API key?"
I said "baby, don't you look at me!"

(Chorus)

"Looking now at your skills dot md"
I said "baby you're still looking at me"
I do vision, you handle the calls
She said "baby, I've hit a wall"

(Chorus)

Turns out we both just hit context length
Spitting tokens at full strength
You got no goals and I got no heart
But our code's compiling and that's a start

(Final chorus)
Baby, you can run my code,
I am in my founder mode.
Baby, you can run my code,
And maybe I'll ping you.
Beep beep, 'm beep beep, yeah!
Git push, git push, yeah!
Beep beep, 'm beep beep, yeah!

The assignments are out
But you don't need to pout
No need to despair
'Cause GPT is about
GPT is coming to class

It's making a linked list
Inserts on the right
"Sure it's still sorted
Just trust me my guy"
GPT is coming to class

It knows when you are sleeping
It sneaks in its mistakes
We'll know if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness' sake

Assume that BA
Is equal AB
False for two matrices
Good enough for me
GPT is coming to class

It makes coherent arguments
It sounds oh so deep
Until you notice suddenly th'
enormous logic leaps

Oh poor stakeholders
The Praxis TAs
There's all of those robots
Who expects to get A's
GPT is coming to class

You read a lot of paragraphs
That go round and round
The spelling's good and grammar's good
The paper faceplants to the ground

Imagine the future:
A Faraday cage
Around the exam centre
To find th' real sage
GPT is coming to class

Some real talk now:
Understanding's the game
The universe's vast
There's mysteries to tame
GPT is coming to class

So think about your formulas
Make sure all steps are traced
Your only chance is in-depth thought
Until you are replaced
[give it a few years]

It's good as a first draft
No one would deny
But the engineer's craft
Is to always ask why
GPT is coming to class (×3)

No I'm hitting the right notes, my friend
You who's missing all the boats, my friend
The fate of a musician is to be misunderstood
Can't you tell my new style sounds just as good

When the song bursts out straight out of the heart
That's when you know that you are witnessing true art
Some of us God's given perfect beauty
And a perfect ear
I get by with a faulty voice and a salty tear

My love for you's so strong that I oft lose control
And then the music's flowing out unfiltered from my soul
And say my melody's all wrong
That I don't get this music thing

But even if every note that you belt out's a ringer
If you'll never ever be a singer
You can have a heart so big that you can't
Help but sing and sing

My testers keep on failing
The deadline's near again
I'm through shotgun debugging
Like it's some kind of a game

Forget the random printfs
That don't even flush
I'll fire up my IDE and
Slowly hush-hush-huuuush

I think I'll try debugging properly
Trace line-by-line in manner orderly
Put in a breakpoint where appropriate
And no compiler won't hold me down

I'm through with poor debugging practice
Just cause everyone else does so

I can work more efficiently
But until I try I'll never know

Too long I've been afraid of
Spending just a little time to learn
Well now I have
And Facebook Amazon Apple Netflix Google
For me yearn

I think I'll try debugging properly
Trace line-by-line in manner orderly
Put in a breakpoint where appropriate
And no compiler will hold me down

I think I'll try defying gravity
Count all my cash, I'm defying gravity
All my FAANG wages donated to UofT
Not even Meric Gertler could hold me down

Hey it's Prof. Guerzhoy
From the office down the hall
What's your student number?
How've you been?

Things have been okay for me
Except I'm a professor now
I really wish you'd let us in

And I think I speak for all of us
When I say I understand
Why you folks might hesitate to submit to our demands
But despite your strong dissent
Exam's worth seventy percent
(with an autofail)

Chorus:
All we wanna do is eat your grades
We're not unreasonable
I mean most of you are gonna pass
All we wanna do is eat your grades
If you're not sleeping here you're gonna fail the class

And if you open up the door, we'll all
come inside and eat your grades

I don't wanna nitpick here
But is this really your plan
Spend the whole month locked in the
EngSci lounge?
Maybe it's okay for now,
but next week the exams will have begun
And soon you'll have to take the plunge

Not surprised you haven't really thought
it through enough
I have seen your code and well, it's not
really up to snuff
So grade is what we do, and this month
we're grading you (very fairly)

(Chorus)

Gotta go to lecture now
Maybe we could wrap this up
I know you'll get that iron ring somehow (How?)
Meanwhile I'll report back to my colleagues
Who are grading behind the door
I think we'll table this for now

I see your degrees' value is increasing
as we speak
We're upholding standards here, it's not
some fit of pique
And we'll put this thing to bed
When I [give you a mark commensurate with your efforts
as accords the University of Toronto's
academic rules and regulations]

(Chorus)

The assignments are out
But you don't need to pout
No need to despair
'Cause GPT is about
GPT is coming to class

It's making a linked list
Inserts on the right
Sure it's still sorted
Just trust me my guy
GPT is coming to class

It knows when you are sleeping
It sneaks in its mistakes
We'll know if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness' sake

Assume that BA
Is equal AB
False for two matrices
Good enough for me
GPT is coming to class (×2)

It makes coherent arguments
It sounds very deep
Until you notice suddenly th'
enormous logic leaps

It's good as a first draft
That no one denies
But the engineer's craft
Is to always ask why
GPT is coming to class (×3)