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Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by layer8 on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @11:32AM (#43014826)
When I see stuff like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42994610 (continued in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42996895), I think the field still has fundamental hurdles to overcome.
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Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by lordswork on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @12:23PM (#43015460)
This kind of error doesn't really matter in programming where the output can be verified with a feedback loop.
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Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by layer8 on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:18PM (#43016183)
This is not about the numerical result, but about the way it reasons. Testing is a sanity check, not a substitute for reasoning about program correctness.
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Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by tmnvdb on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @03:07PM (#43017696)
Why do you think this is a fundamental hurdle, rather than just one more problem that can be solved? I dont have strong evidence either way, but I've seen a lot of 'fundamental unsurmountable problems' fall by the wayside over the past few years. So I'm not sure we can be that confident that a problem like this, for which we have very good classic algorithms, is a fundamental issue.
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