AstroBen

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by AstroBen 9mo ago
Its blown me away also I'm also fairly confident having it write my code is not a productivity boost, at least for production work I'd like to maintain long term
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
The idea for the site is interesting but there seems to be an incredible amount of misinformation on here
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
Yes. I absolutely agree. To fully optimize this system we must enact breeding restrictions to reduce the energy demands from the humans.
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
The worst is reviewing the code and realizing it stinks and should be done another way So you re-roll the slot machine and pay the reviewing cost twice I don't think AI's biggest strength is in writing code
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
I don't think there truly is a way to bulletproof yourself Anything that AI can't do today could be convincingly argued that it will be able to do in 3 years. There's no-one that can tell you what the world will look like the
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
It's also the wording. The weird phrases "Glorified Google search with worse footnotes" what on earth does that mean? AI has a distinct feel to it
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
Their comments are full of "it's not x, it's y" over and over. Short pithy sentences. I'm quite confident it's AI written, maybe with a more detailed prompt than the average I guess this is the end of the human
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
Do all details matter equally? Maybe only 3/10 of them you really care about and you can leave the rest up to the contractor
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
What other layers are you referencing that OpenAI doesn't have?
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
And your entire argument is based around the possibility of it turning into a magic genie that can do anything
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
I think everyone would seriously benefit from learning poker. I used to play professionally and the idea of looking at things as probabilistic bets, and in terms of expected value is so deeply rooted in my mind Investments are bets. Most sa
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
What's worse is that universities aren't incentivized to fight it at all. Students getting high marks is a good look for them
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
> The customer might be able to do it themselves Have you ever paid for software? I have, many times, for things I could build myself Building it yourself as a business means you need to staff people, taking them away from other work. Yo
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
> lowers the barrier to entry, way more people try to build things, and then those same people need actual developers when they hit the edges of what the tool can do I was imagining companies expanding the features they wanted and was sk
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
I imagine Jagex must be up there with having the most sophisticated bot detection out of anyone. Its been a thing for decades
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Apparebtly this person actually got it to compile: https://xcancel.com/CanadaHonk/status/2011612084719796272#m
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
> This isn’t incremental improvement. This is a phase change. > This isn’t about one person copying one idea. It’s about the fundamental economics of software changing. That "this isn't x, it's y" really is a stron
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
yeah they later admitted it was wildly over-exaggerated
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
> There’s clearly a lot of astroturfing going on. Yeah I think so too. I even see it here on HN I'm just tuning it all out. The big test is just installing the damn thing and seeing what it can do. There's 0 barrier to trying i
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
"Look at what happened with the internet!" also doesn't mean the same will happen with AI Neither argument works
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
Consider people in their 40s have.. A mortgage: if you were assuming a strong income that would continue, you very likely could be forced to sell your house and take a huge loss A family, kids: people relying on you Time: at this point you
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
One potential option would be to get an online CS degree from somewhere like WGU. An official stamp of "I know my shit" that would get you past most HR filters with a minimal money and time commitment Might learn a thing or two, a
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
The way to vote against this is to test the alternatives. They're really good!
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
When choosing between convenience and privacy, most people seem to choose convenience
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
The fact that you could be fired at any time hasn't changed. That was true before any of this. Maybe this is a wake up call that it's a real risk, but the risk was always there and should be planned for The more important thing th
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
Your boss can't magic things into reality. If the LLM can't do your job they can't replace you with it They can try . Which they'll then fail, and you'll be rehired and have to clean up the mess, then continue on
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
Fresh grads will be fine regardless. You're okay to start over from scratch at 25. 42 on the other hand is tough I feel for the mid-career people with families to support. Can't imagine how stressful that would be
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
Only Anthropic knows but I imagine you're a significant outlier
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
I keep flip-flopping between being optimistic and pessimistic on this, but yeah we just need to wait and see
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by AstroBen 9mo ago
It's pretty clear that if AI delivers on its promise it'll decimate the income of all but the top 1% developers Labor is worth less, capital and equity ownership make more or the same

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