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by adrianN 5mo ago
What’s the huge advantage though? Adopting workflows that give big productivity gains is relatively easy even for big corporations. It’s only an advantage if you can keep it secret. OTOH maybe we’re in for a future of patenting prompts.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
I have seen plenty of videos online that suggest that this is a true fact.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
The definition of „value“ in capitalism is already contentious, so even in idealized capitalism billionaires can provide „value“ that does not align with the „value“ of most of the people.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
Historically it was not uncommon for beds to be rented out to multiple people.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
Society strongly rewards predictability. If I try to minimize predictability of my actions I will very quickly be hit by a car and die. Similar outcomes should be expected in most other areas of life. Stop predictably paying your bills and
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by adrianN 5mo ago
In an ideal world everybody runs open models on hardware they control.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
I’m not sure that having people read LLM output does that either.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
We don’t have a lot of examples of technological life forms that don’t need oxygen.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
Writing and later the printing press have already considerably stifled human expressiveness. Language used to be noch more fragmented and diverse before mass media (or the Bible in every household). In my grandmother’s time you would have d
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by adrianN 5mo ago
I believe it is very hard to quantify „productivity“. I’m sure that for suitable definitions you can find gains from coding assistants. Personally I get more code written and more features implemented. Yet I’m very wary of coding assistants
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by adrianN 5mo ago
I consider it the governments job to keep the population in a state where they can have a net benefit to society. Obviously this needs to be balanced with personal freedoms.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
I suppose that if you don’t believe that models will be good enough to work completely without senior engineer help, positioning yourself as a master prompter is a good move to improve your chances of not getting fired.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
The gamble is that you can cruise on the senior engineer’s diminishing understanding for a few years until models become good enough that you don’t need any humans in the loop and you can fire all those expensive seniors.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
That doesn’t matter. Once the code is generated it doesn’t change. The reviewed artifact in a safety critical codebase is the last abstraction layer before a fully certified compilation pipeline. So usually it’s not the UML but the generate
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by adrianN 5mo ago
There probably already is generated code in there, only it was generated from UML. I don’t think that LLM generated code will be treated differently from the point of view of the relevant regulations.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
Safety critical software is mostly a compliance dance that incidentally produces artifacts with lower defect rates than usual. LLMs can help with safety critical code as long as a human signs their name that they are responsible for its beh
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by adrianN 5mo ago
Does that matter that much in practice? I bet lots of costumers are okay with software that crashes 10x as much if it costs 10x less. There already is a ton of shitty software that still sells.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
To be fair, many of the proof attempts that mathematicians do also have major flaws. Most get caught before getting published.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
Politicians should probably not use Signal but something that is controlled by the government and for example doesn’t allow „accidentally“ deleting incriminating messages.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
Designing infrastructure and processes to reduce human error is a very important topic. With the recent AI boom, many engineers are working on figuring out how to build infrastructure that reduces AI errors. We rediscover many techniques (e
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by adrianN 5mo ago
Social security is already a redistribution scheme, it already is more complicated.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
Demographics in most developed countries make catering to old people the strategy to win elections.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
It is a bit sad that we have to celebrate bending the third derivative of the relevant metric in the right direction after like fifty years of talks.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
I would argue that subsidized solar panels and batteries from China are the the most important factor. If renewables weren’t economically competitive we’d see approximately zero deployment.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
We‘ve had talks about this topic decades before I was born, but progress is a bit underwhelming.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
C++98 (and older) is still widely used in embedded systems.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
Coding around compiler bugs is pretty standard practice in usecases where you have some random vendor compiler that is based on some ancient gcc if you’re lucky or completely in-house if you’re not.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
No (I think?), but every ICE sold today will still be on the road in ten years. The average car in Germany is about nine years old for example. And the vast majority of new cars sold are still not electric. If you want the majority of the c
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by adrianN 5mo ago
I wish I shared your optimism, but for fossil fuels to become irrelevant in ten years we’d need to ban the sale of ICE cars and fossil heating today. Not to mention industrial uses of fossil fuels.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
Most CO2 in the air stays there for geological time frames. Local pollution from badly managed landfills is unlikely to collapse global ecosystems. CO2 is much more serious

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