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But you haven't linked those details about the training process with "AI won't replace software developers".
I often wonder why someone would write comments like yours. Who are all these people itching to bat for AI, and why do they always seem so aggressive and personally invested in it?
Condescension aside, why are you tying their hands like that? If a manager wants to replace a human with an LLM, they're not going to limit it so much. They're going to give it access to everything they can.
Unlike Postgres, the average product isn't written in C or C++, so it's probably better. People (even the Rust fans) underestimate how many footguns are everywhere in C and C++. Even the best developers write security bugs not infrequently.
And the average product is solving much easier problems (in terms of low-level programming, which is where the worst bugs tend to be) than a high-performance database.
How do you expect mathematicians to "embrace" OpenAI having unreleased models that are much better at solving big-ticket problems than they are?
Maybe some math departments could pay OpenAI for access to their models, but I doubt OpenAI would want to deal with most of them.
> The coding is the intellectual work!
Yes, and the machines can do intellectual work now.
It's funny to see some commenters here cheer as the leopard eats the mathematicians' faces, when we can all see that the software developers are next in line.
> Even the security argument has evaporated: AIs now hack better then people.
They hack better (faster, at least) than humans if you have thousands of dollars to spend.
Can you afford to spend that money regularly pentesting all the code you have your AI to write for you, though?
And if you can't, then what link is there between being good at hacking, and being good at writing secure code?
(Those aren't rhetorical questions.)
Another one: When will Bun (at this point a mostly Claude-written project, managed by Anthropic themselves) become at least as secure or reliable as Node.js (a mostly human-written project)? If you're right, it should be any day now. And maybe you are right - maybe by tomorrow Claude will have written a formal proof that Bun is memory-safe and it'll never segfault again.
I'm confused by the scenarios in this thread. How is the machine on the other side receiving this information? How is it measuring voltages on the mains supply, or receiving radio waves emitted by RAM?
> Bots can use async or virtual threads and not even have to hold on to a stack while they are waiting for this bullshit, clicking on buses, etc.
Don't the bots still need to do the proof of work for Anubis? They can't "async" their way out of that work.
> Another web is possible but web populists don't really believe it.
How? Sharing knowledge with the world used to be an obviously good thing. Now it's a way to help tech companies replace people with machines. What alternative web could change this state of things?
> Not to sound snarky but why don't you go outside and meet people, exercise, play sports, explore nature?
For many people it's shame. Feeling like you're mentally a child while everyone around you is an adult can't be a good feeling.
They've already "checked out" in reality (NEETs, etc.) but they're still "lowest on the totem pole". The people who feel superior to them seem content to do so from afar, to belittle them from the comfort of social media.
> Whoever is in charge could try to drag those people back into the real world by force
But why would you even want that? They like it in the simulation, and nobody really wants to deal with them outside the simulation.
> Why is cooking enjoyable?
Maybe it's about the joy of learning something new every time you cook. Having Michelin star restaurants in your neighborhood would add to that joy, not take away from it.
> I would like to believe that many people will still choose reality and real relationships.
Why would you like to believe that?
> what GenZ is doing these days is professional complaining
We are watching machines rapidly match and surpass humans at countless skills that were considered uniquely human mere months ago - skills that demanded a lot of creativity and insight. Some of our oldest fields of study (e.g., mathematics) are turning into a game of who can spend the most tokens.
I think the humans are entitled to complain a little.
> And we know why. It's because of their hostile attitude towards their users.
Right, their decline is because of the thing that they've been accused of since the very beginning, and not the trillion-dollar technology that replaces them. Brilliant take.
> has started to just feel more akin to a religious stance than something based on any specific fact
It can be an ethical stance based on facts, not religious-like. AI has no shortage of ethical issues that could stop someone from using it.
Comparing these people to religious or MAGA types - who believe in things that are false or at least unprovable - is farcical.
How would you make it better UX-wise? I can't imagine it being much better. It just gets out of your way.
One reason IRV is popular is that it has extensive use in other countries (Australia, Ireland). It's not revolutionary but it's an improvement and nothing terrible has happened.
STAR has been used approximately nowhere. STAR is also one of the few seriously advocated-for voting methods in which it's possible for the first choice of a majority to lose, although that isn't likely to happen in practice.
We already have plenty of great languages for those use cases.
I don't want syntax conveniences, I want fewer footguns. C has so many ways to trip you up that aren't inherent to its domain. Are any of these new languages better in that regard?
It's probably possible to prompt an LLM into writing well, but most LLM writing that I've seen is poorly structured (e.g., the paragraphs in this post feel like strings of punchy marketing phrases), and the LLMs are too good at sounding like they're saying a lot while saying very little.
Plus, if a human puts the effort into writing something, that signals to me that it's worth something, because human time is much more scarce than LLM time.
I don't know if it's applicable here, but Wasm programs can access multiple memories.
If it wasn't PDF it'd be something else. It's everything after the PDF that's alarming here - how did they break out of the app sandbox?
Is it irresponsible? They've revealed barely anything about how it works, besides that the first step is a PDF, and something about Glyph Grift.
This seems more correlated with big vs. small organizations, not closed vs. open organizations. There are open projects (e.g., Debian, Blender) that tick all four of your boxes in my opinion.
This. The only mainstream alternative is Android, and I'm already "voting with my wallet" against Samsung, Google, and the rest for violating user privacy even more than Apple does.
> Tokio's not a lightweight thread/green thread system
It's not green threads (and maybe not lightweight threads; there are so many names for things that may or may not be considered the same...) in the sense of stackful coroutines, but either way, it's a userspace implementation of multitasking on top of a smaller number of OS threads, which is the part that's relevant to my question.
Sorry, when you said "People are beginning to realise what AI can do for them.", I got the impression you were referring to the general public lessening their visceral hatred of anything AI-generated, not niche groups of people doing very impressive things.