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IMO they're making a mistake trying to shove every possible product into ChatGPT. Just focus on making the core functionality better.

I completely get the doomer POV, but we've somehow navigated all the previous "dangerous" technologies we've created - electricity, phones, internet - every one of those had similar arguments and concerns of danger.

The optimists' argument:-

Politics:- in general, I think many of the problems in the world today are due to misinformation and lack of education. What happens when we start routing things through an ASI that brings data and logic to the table? What happens when politicians can no longer lie without being caught out live on air? In the UK, local authorities are being flooded with complaints and requests from people; for example, some are doing AI-assisted investigations into accounting "errors".

Science:- I just don't see how the current rate of progress doesn't end up in crazy technologies like perfectly simulated human cells, organs and bodies to the point where we can run experiments virtually and solve all diseases in the next few years. This is happening. Perfect weather predictions far into the future, likewise with earthquakes, etc. Solar panel research explosion resulting in huge efficiency gains, to the point where people no longer need to plug their EV in - car surfaces will be covered in solar panels, as will our windows and roofs. Connecting new homes to the grid will be optional - the same way landline phones are no longer a thing.

I just find it very difficult not to extrapolate all the above.

We got this dump of mathematical breakthroughs from one small team in one company with access to this technology. What happens when this SOTA model is available (and it will continue getting better and cheaper) to everyone working on hard problems - every university on the planet starts cranking out AI-assisted research breakthroughs.

I'm still embedded in the OpenAI ecosystem, but man, when I try out Mistral, it is snappy! Like basically instant responses that seem faster and better in quality than ChatGPT on instant mode. I'm impressed.

Well, I'm sure he cleaned up beforehand!

> I feel like “giving up understanding” is inevitable

People didn't stop understanding how to do addition or subtraction when the calculator came out. That's a simple example, but if the AI is superhuman, I don't see any reason why it cannot break things down into simple concepts. I don't think anything is truly beyond comprehension; it just needs to be explained properly (by someone, or someTHING that really understands it) and, for complex ideas, time taken to understand them.

> given up on understanding parts of our own systems for the exact same reason.

Maybe this will be a sign of when ASI is achieved. AI researchers keep saying they don't fully understand how LLMs work - maybe when ASI arrives, it can explain that fully.

> Hey is not even a Ruby Rails App anymore. And indirectly admitting Ruby is slow considering they manage to cut 99.9% of CPU with their rewrite in Rust.

Let's see how that goes.

Personally, I wouldn't want all my emails stored on a service where the dude doesn't even look at the code anymore.

> a Ruby on Rails development agency.

He's sitting in the front row at a Ruby on Rails conference - what did you think his job was?

Let me guess, is the reason money?

And yet, it makes the front page of HN. The bar is low.

Neat! I wonder if the page performance suffers much if it's a large page full of similarly styled components.

Agreed.

Holy shit.

I bet you're fun to hang around with.

That's an incredible webpage. Still not going to read all that, but incredible nonetheless.

This. It's the exact same argument that was being made (maybe still is) against self driving cars.

To be honest, I'm looking forward to more AI in healthcare if it can increase diagnosis success rates and improve treatment outcomes etc.

This is dirt cheap for Apple. Am I missing something?

I feel second hand embarrassment for IBM. Terrible name, subpar landing page, no mention of coding ability or which LLM "Bob" uses.

If you're launching something 2 years late, you've got to do better than this.

Exactly.

> This is such an amateur mistake on their sandbox that it makes me think it must be flawed on purpose.

Sounds like you're assuming they're actually writing code by hand and reviewing it with humans.

If it's anything like the company I work at, they're all being forced to vibe code the shit out of everything and ship more pull requests every week. It's all slop from here.

Good luck with that patent.

Anyone else becoming numb to these updates?

I feel like I should be excited about being able to generate almost perfect videos but, I just don't care anymore.

> have a little more sympathy for the billion dollar company

No.

Their leadership went all in on AI and in the last blog post essentially admitted some missing test coverage for a critical path. Time to learn lessons and fix your vibe coded shitslop and stop using "user graph go up" as some kind of excuse.

Oh cool, vibe-coded slop from Tobi Lutke, the right-wing fash CEO who wants wealthy folks' votes [1] to carry more weight than the rest of us (the plebs) - no thanks

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/shopify-ceo-endorses-idea-to-...

I see. In almost 10 years of using Ruby I can't say that ever bothered me.

You're the engineer, not them - you're being paid to write code that ideally doesn't break - it's your job to explain that tests benefit them. There's very little excuse not to add test coverage as you go along these days given an LLM could help write most in a flash.

Or, don't tell them and do it anyway. It'll make your own life 100x easier, unless you enjoy the stress of bug fixing and responding to incidents where you've broken something.

Writing code without tests because it takes too long is like running a car engine without ever bothering to change the oil - it'll run for a bit, and eventually fail catastrophically.

> inscrutable. To distinguish methods you have to have all method signatures memorized or rely on an advanced IDE with highlighting.

I'm confident that you're either an outlier or have simply come across a terribly written or badly formatted Ruby codebase - considering Ruby (and Rails which followed the same principles) was created with the purpose of being highly readable (made for humans [1]).

What is advanced IDE highlighting? Do you mean.. colours? And memorising methods - huh?

I really struggle to see how you can't tell which lines here are methods - https://gist.github.com/davidlares/5d136fa54572ad98e711e3684...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22090358

I really wish someone would make a version of the opencode desktop application that's as responsive and well-made as Cursor so I can promptly move over.

> You can't seriously tell me client retry doesn't have a unit test which ensures the retry back off behaviour

That wouldn't be a unit test - that's more like an end-to-end or integration test.

Have you ever worked anywhere that had perfect test coverage? It just doesn't happen, nor is it possible unless you're building a calculator app or todo list.

Lol, no.