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People keep talking about AGI as if it's some mystical leap beyond human capability. But let's be honest; software development at a modern startup is already t
by meindnoch 1y ago
People keep talking about AGI as if it's some mystical leap beyond human capability.
But let's be honest; software development at a modern startup is already the upper bound of applied intelligence. You're juggling shifting product specs, ambiguous user feedback, legacy code written by interns, and five competing JS frameworks, all while shipping on a Friday.
Models can now do that. They can reason about asynchronous state, refactor a codebase across thousands of lines, and actually explain the difference between useEffect and useLayoutEffect without resorting to superstition.
If that's not general intelligence, what exactly are we waiting for - self-awareness?
- blueside 1y agoLLMs have continually taught me that we have vastly overestimated human intelligence
- teleforce 1y ago>LLMs have continually taught me that we have vastly overestimated human intelligence LLMs have continually taught me that we have vastly underestimated human intelligence, fixed that for you
- woadwarrior01 1y agoPerhaps we're overestimating human intelligence and underestimating animal intelligence. Also funny that current LLMs are incapable of continual learning themselves.
- baobun 1y ago> software development at a modern startup is already the upper bound of applied intelligence. The hubris and myopia is staggering.
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- hax0ron3 1y agoModels can't do that now, though. If they could, pretty much every human software engineer would be unemployed right now.
- password54321 1y agoComputers being good/fast at automating/calculating things that people find difficult is not a new phenomenon. By your standards we have had general intelligence decades ago.
- _se 1y agoLol, software development at a modern startup isn't even in the upper half of applied intelligence in software engineering much less global human activity/achievement. The "problems" most startups are solving are simple to the point of banality.