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And yet... > maybe my project is a toy (it is) or you think it's poor quality (it's not) but i'm able to do things in minutes that used to take days Just cons
by ctoth 1y ago
And yet...
> maybe my project is a toy (it is) or you think it's poor quality (it's not) but i'm able to do things in minutes that used to take days
Just consider what this will be like as it gets better? Remember we've had working coding agents for less than a year.
People are excited not because it's fun to fight with the damn things. It's not! We're excited despite that!
I remember my old Nokia 6682. It was an early smartphone that ran S60 and I had a screen reader, basic IM client, and a few other apps including a web browser installed. It was awkward to use. It was frustrating. The connection was dog-slow. And it was cool as hell--a little slice of the future in my pocket.
I remember my Windows 98 (first edition) machine with JAWS for Windows 3.2, trying to use the early web; before they had the concept of the virtual cursor. Before any of this accessibility stuff was at all standardized, when we got what we could by scraping screen buffers and injecting into other processes. And damn it was so cool. So obviously the future that we put up with the jank.
Here we are again. Annoying to use? Often! Remarkable? Hell yeah!
Except this time we have people combing through every sentence to extract only the negative ones from a 40kb success story--I do at least hope you used an LLM for this.
- piskov 1y ago> as it gets better See how airjets progressed in the last 50 years (they haven’t). — This thing you are talking about doesn’t understand its output. I would love this to progress however. — If you are interested in human-level AI don’t work on LLMs https://www.newsweek.com/nw-ai/ai-impact-interview-yann-lecun-artificial-intelligence-2054237 https://www.newsweek.com/nw-ai/ai-impact-interview-yann-lecu...
- scrollaway 1y agoYour counter to the idea that AI and LLMs will improve over time (as they have massively the past years) is picking one example of a technology that hasn’t improved much over 50 years? That’s it? How is this intellectually honest?
- piskov 1y agoI’m just pointing out the fact that past performance doesn’t indicate future one.