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by bandrami 8mo ago
Possibly, but it doesn't make sense to restructure things in advance of that actually happening, particularly since there's no roadmap for getting there right now.
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by bandrami 8mo ago
It's weird that even just a couple of years ago the absolute consensus in the industry was to work for repeatability and secure chain of custody, both of which are basically impossible with an agentic workflow. I don't think any o
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by bandrami 8mo ago
I remember Enron. Hell, I remember the S&Ls. I've seen this movie too many times to not know how it ends.
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by bandrami 8mo ago
And in general a lot more people want to use LLMs to generate things than want to consume the things LLMs generate. Some of the more bullish people should think harder about this pretty clear trend.
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by bandrami 8mo ago
Until the copyright questions surrounding LLM output is solved it's not "vibes" to reject them but simply "legal caution".
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by bandrami 8mo ago
That would only be a world where the copyright and other IP uncertainties around the output (and training!) of LLMs were a solved and known question. So that's not the world we currently live in.
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by bandrami 8mo ago
> Inference is profitable Eh. We don't really know that, and the people saying that have an interest in the rest of the world believing it's true.
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by bandrami 8mo ago
Because it's very easy to generate lisp code. It's meant for metaprogramming
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by bandrami 8mo ago
It made more sense when running editors over tenuous telnet connections was more common
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by bandrami 8mo ago
(setq backup-directory-alist '(("." . "~/.emacs.d/backups/"))) First thing I do any time I install emacs. Note that tramp will kvetch if you do this, but it still works fine.
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by bandrami 8mo ago
Weird that they're all looking for outside money then
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by bandrami 8mo ago
As somebody who occasionally gets tiny ASCAP checks I think an ASCAP/BMI model might work for artists (and maybe even writers?) I guess this is more like SESAC, but maybe that's how this will end up working.
463.
by bandrami 8mo ago
You don't need a realization to receive a patent, just the drawing.
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by bandrami 8mo ago
"What happens when an LLM outputs a patented algorithm?" remains a huge land mine out there, particularly since patent infringement does not require intent or even knowledge, and these models have trained on every patent ever gran
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by bandrami 8mo ago
I'm afraid as of last week this is now as settled as it gets in US law: the output of LLMs is not per se copyrightable, though arrangements and modifications of it can be. It's like a producer who made a song entirely with publi
466.
by bandrami 8mo ago
If you've been storing it with strings loose and are bringing it into tune you definitely gradually tighten all the strings rather than just doing it in sequence, for that reason
467.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Though this is complicated by the fact that the LLM initial training may have been massively illegal (or at least massively tortious). There's still a bunch of legal shoes to drop, one way or the other
468.
by bandrami 8mo ago
The closest analogy is to a music producer sampling public domain audio. The composition will be protected by copyright but each individual sample will not. Every single CGI rendered frame of Shrek is protected by copyright because it was h
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by bandrami 8mo ago
And a whole lot of companies will dump Slack if their data policies loosen (they specifically don't want their people feeding proprietary info to an LLM through any channel)
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by bandrami 8mo ago
30 years ago (well, 28 years ago) we had the Perl Cookbook which was basically Stack Overflow but printed and without annoying moderators closing your questions. That and the camel book never even made it back to my bookshelf because they j
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by bandrami 8mo ago
Also you really do have to know how the underlying assembly integer operations work or you can get yourself into a world of hurt. Do they not still teach that in CS classes?
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by bandrami 8mo ago
That's not really true yet; most of the companies are being a lot more hesitant than individual developers (the companies have legal and TCO worries the devs themselves don't). It's possible what you're describing will b
473.
by bandrami 8mo ago
I don't think I'm asking for something unreasonable: I'll believe this actually speeds up software creation when one of my vendors starts getting me software faster. That's not some crazy ludditism on my part, I don&#x27
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by bandrami 8mo ago
Not if you want to copyright the output
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by bandrami 8mo ago
"Trust"? God no. That's why I have a debugger
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by bandrami 8mo ago
Did that need to be 800 lines of Python, though, is the question
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by bandrami 8mo ago
I understood how that would help the LLM, I asked how that would help us . What decision would that inform for us that we're currently having trouble with?
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by bandrami 8mo ago
Right but our company takes on interns not to help the company but to help the intern
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by bandrami 8mo ago
> you're gonna have to figure out how to do this with an agent I'm really not, though, any more than I "had to" learn JavaScript 20 years ago or blockchains 5 years ago (neither of which I did). Hell, I still use Perl
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by bandrami 8mo ago
I'm still going to need at least one of my vendors to speed up their release pace before I'll believe that. I'm seeing a ton of churn and no actual new product.

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