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by imiric 1y ago
> I want people to care about quality, I want them to care about consistency, I want them to care about the long-term effects of their work. Yeah, that's not happening. LLMs enable masses of non-technical people to create and publis
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by imiric 1y ago
"Claude, write a heartfelt apology tweet, downplay the damages, and emphasize that we're working around the clock to fix things."
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by imiric 1y ago
Never mind what it's costing the vibe coder to fix this. The important question is: what was the cost and consequences of the exploits for users of the service?
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by imiric 1y ago
Noted. General attacks are fine, but we draw the line at personal.
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by imiric 1y ago
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by imiric 1y ago
Well, sure, but those weren't instructions. Just general guidelines to counter the claim that choosing safe technology requires superpowers. It is much simpler than that.
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by imiric 1y ago
It's not that difficult. Choose boring over trendy. Simple over complex. Stability and quality over speed and quantity. There is a lot of software that fits and optimizes for the former. Just be smart and selective about your choices,
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by imiric 1y ago
> The people that are happy with it and praising the avenues offered by LLM/AI solutions are creating codebases that fulfill their requirements, whatever those might be. Ah, but "whatever those might be" is the crucial bit
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by imiric 1y ago
I jumped the gun a bit in my comment, since you did mention you want to see this from both sides. So it was clear, and I apologize. The thing is that I often read this kind of response only to comments with negative experiences, while posit
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by imiric 1y ago
Right. I do think that just the capability to find and generate interesting patterns from existing data can be very valuable. It has many applications in many fields, and can genuinely be transformative for society. But, yeah, the question
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by imiric 1y ago
It's telling that you ask these details from a comment describing a negative experience, yet the top-most comment full of praises and hyperbole is accepted at face value. Let's either demand these things from both sides or from ne
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by imiric 1y ago
Ah, those pesky regulations that try to prevent road accidents... If it's not a technological limitation, why aren't we seeing self-driving cars in countries with lax regulations? Mexico, Brazil, India, etc. Tesla launched FSD in
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by imiric 1y ago
> If scaling doesn't stall out soon, then I honestly have no idea what to expect the visibility curve to look like. We are seeing diminishing returns on scaling already. LLMs released this year have been marginal improvements over t
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by imiric 1y ago
It's "here" if you live in a handful of cities around the world, and travel within specific areas in those cities. Getting this tech deployed globally will take another decade or two, optimistically speaking.
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by imiric 1y ago
> Vibe coding is opening up a new avenue for custom built functionality that was previously too expensive. I'm not debating that. What I am arguing for is for using these new tools smartly and conservatively, because they have and w
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by imiric 1y ago
That's great, and kudos to your friend. Just two things: - Wouldn't his firm be better served by website builders like WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, etc.? These services have enabled millions of less technical people to create and
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by imiric 1y ago
Hhmm good point. I would say... yes. But with the strong caveat that when used within the context of AGI, the individual/system should be able to showcase that intelligence, and the results should be comparable to those of a neurotyp
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by imiric 1y ago
Huh, I wasn't aware that reasoning could be toggled. I use the OpenRouter API, and just saw that this is supported both via their web UI and API. I'm used to Sonnet 3.5 and 4 without reasoning, and their performance is roughly the
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by imiric 1y ago
> IMHO, that would qualify as an AGI even though it isn't writing essays or producing business plans. I'm not sure it would, though. The "G" in AGI stands for "General", which a dog obviously can't show
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by imiric 1y ago
I'm curious: can you link to any tests that prove this? I don't trust most benchmarks, but if this can be easily confirmed by an apples-to-apples comparison, then I would be inclined to believe it.
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by imiric 1y ago
Thanks. I trust that you're more familiar with the internals than myself, so I stand corrected. I'm only speaking from personal usage experience, and don't trust benchmarks since they are often gamed, but if this process prod
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by imiric 1y ago
Exactly. This not only affects a potential critic model, but the entire concept of a "reasoning" model is based on the same flawed idea—that the model can generate intermediate context to improve its final output. If that self-gen
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by imiric 1y ago
Thank you! The hype around this tech strongly promotes the narrative that we're close to exponential growth, and that AGI is right around the corner. That pretty soon AI will be curing diseases, eradicating poverty, and powering humano
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by imiric 1y ago
Well, Sam Altman has a clear definition of ASI, and AGI is something they've been thinking about for a long time, so presumably they must have some accepted definition of it. My question was whether everyone believes this vision that A
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by imiric 1y ago
Nice! I currently run KDE on my HTPC, and I might give this a try. I hope it allows playing media with external players like mpv, instead of having its own media player. A way of loading remote libraries would also be welcome.
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by imiric 1y ago
Thanks for sharing. One thing I was interested to read but didn't find in your post is: does everyone believe in the vision that the leadership has shared publicly, e.g. [1]? Is there some skepticism that the current path leads to AGI,
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by imiric 1y ago
That's not a usable workaround. In most cases it doesn't actually produce full determinism[1]. And even if it did, a certain degree of non-determinism is actually desirable. The most probable tokens might not be correct, and ran
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by imiric 1y ago
> Or, if we trust that LLMs are useful for all tasks, then it's practically useful to know what they're not good at. The thing is that there's no way to objectively measure this. Benchmarks are often gamed, and like a sibl
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by imiric 1y ago
> They're unseating Google as the SOTA method of finding information on the internet. Hardly. Google is at the frontier of these developments, and has enough resources to be a market leader. Trillion-dollar corporations have the bes
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by imiric 1y ago
> Look for frantic efforts by companies to offload responsibility for LLM mistakes onto consumers. Not just by companies. We see this from enthusiastic consumers as well, on this very forum. Or it might just be astroturfing, it's ha

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