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Oh who cares. We are barely scratching the surface of AI. You all make it sound like it’s been around for 30 years and it sucks. It will only get better. Got to

Oh who cares. We are barely scratching the surface of AI. You all make it sound like it’s been around for 30 years and it sucks. It will only get better. Got to stop throwing up imaginary walls like nothing will improve.

webstrand 5mo ago
As a counterexample, I've been seeing more "safety rejections" from Claude. Unlike search, being unable to ask _anything_ about botulinum, or details about the recent Copy Fail vulnerability (without giving my fingerprints to Anthropic to become a "verified security researcher") we're only just beginning to see the ways LLM can be used to distort information and its availability.
jamiek88 5mo ago
So you started with ‘highly doubtful’ as a comment, got given lots of examples and instead of assimilating that info you closed your eyes put your fingers in yours ears and said “oh who cares?’ - you’re on team AI regardless eh? That’s fucking weird mate.
- youre-wrong3 5mo ago
  Na. Wasn’t given any good examples. People just whining about the same stuff because “oh no I got information that’s former in the same structure that I can tell it’s AI and it makes me feel bad”
UncleMeat 5mo ago
That's fine if we aren't destroying existing products to replace them with AI. People can already use AI mode in google search if they want. "It'll be better later" is a shit reason to kill one product for it.
- youre-wrong3 5mo ago
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throwatdem12311 5mo ago
My grandfather was one of the first people in Canada to own a commercially available chainsaw. Let me tell you - it didn’t take 30 years for people to figure out that chainsaws were useful.
- youre-wrong3 5mo ago
  Yet most of the kids on HN think they write better code than ai and that it’s completely useless and has no place.
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  - throwatdem12311 5mo ago
    LLMs do write code better than many engineers. It’s just the the normal distribution and the way LLMs are built. Just because it doesn’t write better code than above average engineers doesn’t make it useless though. People that say AI writes better code than them is such a tell but not the one they might think it is. Whether or not it is worth the cost or second order effects on society is a different discussion.

webstrand 5mo ago

As a counterexample, I've been seeing more "safety rejections" from Claude. Unlike search, being unable to ask _anything_ about botulinum, or details about the recent Copy Fail vulnerability (without giving my fingerprints to Anthropic to become a "verified security researcher") we're only just beginning to see the ways LLM can be used to distort information and its availability.

jamiek88 5mo ago

So you started with ‘highly doubtful’ as a comment, got given lots of examples and instead of assimilating that info you closed your eyes put your fingers in yours ears and said “oh who cares?’ - you’re on team AI regardless eh? That’s fucking weird mate.

youre-wrong3 5mo ago
Na. Wasn’t given any good examples. People just whining about the same stuff because “oh no I got information that’s former in the same structure that I can tell it’s AI and it makes me feel bad”

UncleMeat 5mo ago

That's fine if we aren't destroying existing products to replace them with AI. People can already use AI mode in google search if they want. "It'll be better later" is a shit reason to kill one product for it.

youre-wrong3 5mo ago
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throwatdem12311 5mo ago

My grandfather was one of the first people in Canada to own a commercially available chainsaw. Let me tell you - it didn’t take 30 years for people to figure out that chainsaws were useful.

youre-wrong3 5mo ago
Yet most of the kids on HN think they write better code than ai and that it’s completely useless and has no place.
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- throwatdem12311 5mo ago
  LLMs do write code better than many engineers. It’s just the the normal distribution and the way LLMs are built. Just because it doesn’t write better code than above average engineers doesn’t make it useless though. People that say AI writes better code than them is such a tell but not the one they might think it is. Whether or not it is worth the cost or second order effects on society is a different discussion.