Re:Ask HN: Does AI progress also fill you with dread?
by dflock on Thursday December 08, 2022 @04:08PM
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Right, but these are general language models, just big ones - and they seem to be progressing quickly. People have started working on more specific systems: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/competitive-programming-with-a...
Once you have something, you can iterate on it, raising the bar. It seems to be accelerating and doesn't feel like it'll be that long before the bar get's raised over our heads.
Re:Ask HN: Does AI progress also fill you with dread?
by mdolon on Thursday December 08, 2022 @04:30PM
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Github Copilot writes 50% of the code I write now, perhaps more. I'd say that's actual work.
Re:Ask HN: Does AI progress also fill you with dread?
by ldh0011 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @06:09PM
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You still have to prompt this code and you still have to verify the code works and fix it when it doesn't. People who use more basic autocomplete probably have it "writing" a double digit percentage of code, I don't think that makes it fair to say autocomplete is doing a double digit percentage of the work.
It can do some really cool things for sure, but it can't do work of any real complexity. Try to make it do your actual work, not a toy problem. The best I've gotten is a basic starting point, variations on common templates.