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I'm curious to see benchmarks when you have access to source code. While traditional QA does not get access to the codebase, with LLMs being primary authors of the code, there are no real practical barriers to giving code access to the testing agents.

At my last job, we did this - gave access to codebase to codex/CC, allowed it to drive the app via browser (+ playwright). It not only found bugs but also correlated them to relevant UI and backend code. We didn't benchmark against anything else, but it was amazing to see it in action.

New java is not very verbose.

>I'm sure there's tech-debt and esoteric compatibility concerns which make evolving Java hard, but from a developer's perspective it's just glacial to evolve and the result is weaksauce.

This used to be the case a few years ago. But not anymore. Java is evolving very rapidly compared to those years.

Not always. See PostgreSQL as a counter example.

Hindsight is perfect in stock markets,but with 100k in initial investment in 2010 in VUG, and a 40k/mo recurring investment until now (little more than half the savings), it would be worth 33M+ now.

Obviously this means one has to be earning that much for 15+ years.

Marketing always was a forcing function. The barrier to product building has dropped immensely now, so it is more about "finesse" part of the product in that area.

100%. Product finesse + Marketing is now the "moat".

I don't disagree. All regulatory issues. But, "not everyone wants to live in one state for tech jobs" - the trend is going the other way where hybrid/office is becoming the norm again. In any case, not too long ago, we were all working from office, which was the norm.

Im a noob to this area, but why is the article picking up on 4 hour batteries? Why not 8 or 12 hour batteries (nights, cloudy days)?

Makes no difference for the current conversation - which is - is Microsoft (and others) paying way less to H1Bs than American workers.

Microsoft -https://h1bgrader.com/h1b-sponsors/microsoft-corporation-ew2...

Wipro - https://h1bgrader.com/h1b-sponsors/wipro-limited-l9k5mz3r21/...

I picked two examples to show the disparity. I do like where this is going, but as it frequently happens, it feels like a weapon than can be wielded selectively.

A law should handle fraud across all abusers.

Is this OpenAI catching up with Anthropic artifacts? At the same time they say "We’ve trained GPT‑6 to compose responses using text, visuals and interactive elements...", rather than a harness.

That is cool. Reactive without song and dance

.. and undo logs make rollbacks and crash recoveries slower. It's a trade off. MySQL storage engine architecture is nice, postgresql extension mechanism is nice.. and so on.

Supposed to be unbiased because "Internal UK government report"?. Both the train and the riots were crimes against humanity. Sorry if Indians don't believe shit coming from the UK.

I am somehow in the "I like Red Delicious" camp. Perhaps because I was used to Kashmiri apples, that apparently share the cultivar roots of red delicious. Never liked the more acidic varieties. Actually like the "mealy" texture - (it feels grainy to me)

Classic SV is about that. Bay Area is 1.5T

Is this like agent substrate?

Do you mean to say training sets are filtered?

I mean, that goes without saying for LLMs. It is an approximation of human knowledge after all.

LLMs are becoming a world expert in everything.

I am exploring this exact area of search and analytics for vanilla postgres as replicas. Guess what, the LLM came up with this exact conclusion of using ctids as docids, all by itself. It was surreal for me to read the blog above , when I hit that paragraph about ctids.

I am no postgres internals expert.

Is the middle option asking LLM to generate a classic ML model? Or generate tons of them and pick the best?

Cap the number, sort by salaries (perhaps by coarse domains of skills and not very narrow . Nurses vs Doctors. But s/w engineers are s/w engineers).

Testing abilities is a gamable proxy. How much a company is willing to spend on the person is the best barometer, if we stay true to the intent of the visa (scarce talent)

They cannot yet outmatch humans in critical thinking. Heck, they cannot outmatch a mediocre person like me yet. How many times have we awen "You are right...." Even on sota models?

They are great tools for research and tasks as of now.

Do you think Flock is in the same category of installing PCs for police departments, when it comes to public impact?

In the short term yes. Long term, no. But I guess you can say the same thing about a team of engineers taking shortcuts

All the whistleblowers have said the alignment projects are underfunded. Surely they don't need external help to fund that? Could've done years ago?

The cynicism is about motivations and not that they are inherently not bad. Perhaps they are as bad as they claim. Or perhaps they're worse. All we have a couple of run of the mill breach examples and some people inside the talking about how dangerous it is. Yes, they are far more qualified than I am (or most people here), and perhaps there is a grain of truth. It is the motivation - and it is always money with corporations.

Yep. And the difference is clear as da for anyone using them both. And in spite of that advantage, OAI is now trying out ads. I can only imagine that even they are getting constrained to compute and are trying to find other ways to plug it

Ban non US models and form a cabal, with the blessings of the government. That's what it is looking like, no?