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A classifier is a subset of generative text, so I think responses like this miss the point. Jev is cheap enough and fast enough to sprinkle across your app in ways that LLM would be infuriatingly laggy and unnecessarily expensive, and it's never going to be injected to provide a sorting algorithm in python.

The point isn't that new type of problem has been unlocked, rather a new approach that can unlock new use cases.

most people will, this tongue-in-cheek demo does not though. downloading assets to run a program is not what we refer to when we say "API calls"

not really fair to call downloading a model once to run locally the same thing as calling an api which happens for every question in jev

Same, I was one of them, too. It used to feel like a place you'd discover things. Now we are led to them.

Google Reader going away felt like the beginning of the end the internet as I knew it. I miss websites

exactly how I feel every time I weed the yard. I'll end up with a pile of weeds, look over my work and see weeds everywhere still

I think you are misunderstanding the term "deterministic". Running on deterministic hardware does not mean an algorithm is deterministic.

Create a program that reads from /dev/random (not urandom). It's not determistic.

just text !== syntactically correct code that solves a defined problem

There is a world of difference between translation and generation. It's even in the name: generative AI. I didn't say anything about magic.

Said another way, compilers are a translation of existing formal code. Compilers don't add features, they don't create algorithms (unrolling, etc., notwithstanding), they are another expression of the same encoded solution.

LLMs are nothing like that

I was thinking of our natural reluctance to adopt newer and better tools because of our comfort and expertise with old ones.

I know I should have experimented with LLMs sooner, but leaned into my instinctive "VIM has gotten me this far" attitude.

> arrested development is the dark side of strengths in the sense of Positive Psychology

I see some correlation here to hesitancy in adopting LLMs for coding.

Right, it doesn't help pay the bills to be right in the long run if you are discarded in the present.

There exists some fact about the true value of AI, and then there is the capitalist reaction to new things. I'm more wary of a lemming effect by leaders than I am of AI itself.

Which is pretty much true of everything I guess. It's the short sighted and greedy humans that screw us over, not the tech itself.

I understand there are probabilities and shortcuts in weather forecasts.... but what part is non-deterministic?

what? I don't see ads unless the creator themselves are doing it, and even then it's two clicks on the right arrow button and we move on

I'm with you, I enjoy the craftsmanship of my trade. I'm not relieved that I may not have to do it in the future, I'm bummed that it feels like something I'm good at, and is/was worth something, is being taken away.

I realize how lucky I am to even have a job that I thoroughly enjoy, do well, and get paid well for. So I'm not going to say "It's not fair!", but ... I'm bummed.