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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
I feel the divide is between people who built something for the joy of building vs people who built something for the joy of consuming (like you). For you LLM’s are great, you can spend less time, effort and still enjoy all the stuff you wa
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
If you go to a coffee shop and ask for extra ice, whole milk, double espresso latte - did you make the coffee or did the Barista make it. You gave him some specific directions didn’t you? It’s the same with LLMs.
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
But you didn’t solve anything. AI solved it. If you go to a coffee shop and ask extra ice, less sugar, more vanilla - did you make the coffee or the barista make the coffe and you just gave some requests to him. Using an LLM is far more sim
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
This is really cool, great work!
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
Yes I don’t want to see AI paintings, I don’t see computers playing chess, I don’t want to see AI generated code. What you do for your business, in this economy is your choice, probably most will use AI for that anyway, but as a hobby I wan
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
I’d say even GitHub copilot autocomplete is LLM aided coding. Copy pasting from a chat too is. But let’s not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. The point is the intent. We don’t want AI generated code. Put that in github if you so pl
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
I’m not sure if that’s enough but it would be a great start.
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
Very well said. I don’t like seeing hackernews submissions that are LLM generated. The joy of hackernews was seeing applied human ingenuity, most of these weren’t successful products anyway. Just like I don’t watch computer chess games, we
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
Where do these models even have this data to learn from. There must be massive computer use datasets? I have a hard time believing it’s emergent if it’s able to do something this good.
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
A one time payment like 1.5B doesn’t do anything. There needs to be a royalty payment based on if the AI regurgitates existing ideas. That is probably the correct way to legislate this. If anything a human does can instantly be copied by an
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
I don’t understand math but it was amusing seeing Terrence Tao’s chat with chatGPT. Everything Tao said was constantly followed by praise: “That’s exactly the right way to think about it.”, “Yes, you are exactly right.” “You have gotten to
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
Serious suggestion, as we’re going to get many such submissions in the future. Can we have an honor code policy of no LLM agents used in development if you want to present on Hacker News. The way I think of it is if we have a forum for pain
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
Yes I won’t use LLM autocomplete or agents for any personal projects. At work, I’ll do whatever’s needed.
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
I’m such a CLANKER hater now, I want to know if this was written by agents or not. If written by agents, I don’t want anything to do with it. I only want human written software, even LLM autocomplete seems a bridge too far.
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
Thanks
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
Yes, not everyone will agree with me. Maybe some people just want to consume AI abundance forever and live on UBI, like Altman’s wet dream. But there will be some group of people, the people who wanted to be skilled tailors, skilled wood wo
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
Surgeons too now? Another avenue for human skill destroyed. I actually want to exit. I want to live in a society where humans flourish not AI. Actually one just needs to walk the streets of Japan and compare that to US. Tokyo has hundreds o
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
Exactly, a lot of people keep attacking me as anxiety for losing my livelihood. It’s not that. It’s just depression that another avenue for human craftsmanship has been taken over by the machines. Humans are not just infinite consumers. If
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
This is all a depressing and bleak future that I don’t look forward to. One solution is to ban LLM’s, to artificially create a demand for human thought, that just feels like living in an artificially constructed zoo. Another solution is hum
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
> So I'll say it again, AI will win a fields medal for before managing a McDonald's simply because there are enough big problems within arms reach than their current capacity to plan over time AI can manage a McDonald’s already
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
> If what you like is creating things, AI lets you do it at 10 times the speed. I’ve heard some version of this take many times, all I can say is that is not what being a craftsman is. Ands that’s fine I suppose for some people and not f
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
You were probably just inexperienced in coding. AI has completely bridged that gap. Someone with a 1000 hours coding experience has almost the same speed as someone with 10 hours of experience who gets stuck on syntax like you said. In retu
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
Why are these coding agents millions of lines of rust code. I understand they are using LLM’s to code their tool, but shouldn’t these tools be much simpler, smh.
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
I’m assuming he measured time by averaging on 100s of instances, or he maintained the exact same input for both versions of code. Would be a big oversight if not!
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
Touchy subject and Im not commenting on this specific case that I have no idea about, but for this class of cases (ruptured spine, paralysis, coma) MAID seems better than prolonging life, especially if there’s no hope for full healthy recov
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
Surely funding cell towers in Africa / India is cheaper and easier to maintain than 100k satellites in space.
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
Hmmm it does seem like this seems much worse than what I thought of Apple doing (like stealing the idea for a mouse and GUI from Xerox), the best I could find is Qualcomm claiming Apple stole its modem code and gave it to Intel. That was se
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
Hot take, but Apple has done the same and worse to many other companies when they could. Of course Apple can sue and they will probably settle some amount with OpenAI, but acting like this is not commonplace in today’s business environment,
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by sashank_1509 3mo ago
I think the important thing is this is much cheaper than hiring a software engineering team. They could have hired me for 200k and I could not do this in a year. I do not have the context, and I do not know Zig or Rust, perhaps I could pick
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by sashank_1509 4mo ago
Depressing to think that AI will be doing most of this in the future. Sharing it freely in the internet, basically ensures AI can copy it well.

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