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My guess is the models just continue to get better and better When I got into agentic coding a year or two ago I was sure it was only good at autocomplete. Som
by mountainriver 5mo ago
My guess is the models just continue to get better and better
When I got into agentic coding a year or two ago I was sure it was only good at autocomplete. Something happened earlier this year where the models hit a new level of capability.
Everyone I know now just does agentic coding, and it’s really amazing. I think we should just try pushing this as far as we can possibly go, it really feels like the acceleration of the human race is upon us.
- bandrami 5mo agoWe're already hitting some logistical limits. Even if transformers don't have an inherent capability plateau, we only have so many GPUs and so much power to improve them, and we're finding it very difficult to expand that infrastructure. Something like 6 GW of new DCs have been announced over the past 2 years of which less than 1 GW has actually been turned on and started serving, and the deliverable dates for the rest just keep slipping. (Not to mention that the DCs are all talking as if the chips in them will last 6 years, which is turning out to be a stretch.)
- hu3 5mo agoSounds like we just need a Dyson sphere. Besides, I have been hearing "this is the limit" since the doomers of "this is just a markov chain and can't be useful". Yet the limits keep being broken.
- tardedmeme 5mo agoMost of your comment history is defending LLM psychosis
- peteforde 5mo agoMost of your comment history is less than a month old
- noIdeaTheSecond 5mo agoMarkov chains are very useful and imo so are LLMs, the issue I believe stems from calling it "inteligence" which creates some expectation which is often not met
- ares623 5mo agowhat if we're accelerating to a brick wall?
- forgetfreeman 5mo agoMore like neo-feudalism by way of breadlines.
- jay_kyburz 5mo agoIt's hard to care much about how software is written when superpowers are invading their neighbors, democracy itself is under attack, the food supply chain is failing, and the world is hotter than it's ever been.
- ares623 5mo agosoftware plays a big role in enabling 2 (arguably 3) out of those. Least we could do is not make it worse. But it seems most of us are still just children. They give us something shiny that makes pretty lights and we happily burn the world to keep it.
- aeve890 5mo ago>... I was sure it was only good at autocomplete. Something happened earlier this year where the models hit a new level of capability. Yes, something happened, it got better at autocomplete. What else could be? The underlying model hasn't changed. >acceleration of the human race Please just stop with this bullshit. Nobody's curing cancer, climate change, inequality or whatever important real problem there is with LLMs. Nobody. If this tech is good enough to make you more productive is just because you're not working in anything new or cutting edge or innovative. The only reason a LLM knows how to do your job is because that code has been literally written before enough times to appear in the training data. Try to use llms to write C++26, some HDL or in any niche stack and you'll get a nice reality check about LLMs.
- somewhatgoated 5mo agoI’m sure I would be just as useless as an LLM in the “niche stack” examples that you cited. Why do you think that is actually a good argument against? Most “business” problems have already been solved in some way and the times I had to write really novel code in my career have been very very few. Also sure LLMs haven’t solved cancer or unequality in the few years they exist - but humans also failed here in the last couple thousand
- vips7L 5mo agoAcceleration of the human race is the biggest cope I’ve read all year.
- fatata123 5mo ago[dead]