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Open question to HN: In your opinion, what product or piece of work best represents the high-watermark of AI achievement - LLMs or otherwise? I find articles li
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Open question to HN: In your opinion, what product or piece of work best represents the high-watermark of AI achievement - LLMs or otherwise? I find articles like this are less viable in the face of real counter example. I see a few comments already challenging the author for downplaying the CloudFlare OAuth project - is that repo the current champion of SOTA LLMs?
- tptacek 1y agoPeople will disagree but I think this is a category error. If you're looking for a shining example of sharp, crystallized code to stack up against Fabrice Bellard, you're not going to find it, because that's not what LLM agents do. 'kentonv said this best on another thread: It's not the typing itself that constrains, it's the detailed but non-essential decision-making. Every line of code requires making several decisions, like naming variables, deciding basic structure, etc. Many of these fine-grained decisions are obvious or don't matter, but it's still mentally taxing" [... they go on from here]. (Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44209249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44209249). What does that look like on a scoreboard? I guess you'll have to wait a while. Most things that most people write, even when they're successful, aren't notable as code artifacts. A small fraction of successful projects do get that kind of notability; at some point in the next couple years, a couple of them will likely be significantly LLM-assisted, just because it's a really effective way of working. But the sparkliest bits of code in those projects are still likely to be mostly human.