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Jesus Christ, so much "stuff" crammed into so little space. What a nightmare of a website.

Is it faster? Thats the only thing that matters for me anymore. Models are probably as good as they ever need to be for coding, but please make them faster, please.

> We could get what we need to survive on a fourth of the farmland if we kicked the addiction to meat

100%

> arguably a more malicious crime against animals and the planet

Personally disagree, it entirely depends on your moral and ethical alignment though, of course. Generative AI will be used to divide and conquer us at a pace never seen before, it will destroy the internet/digital realm by burying it in generated content.

Doesn't matter to Bob, who lives across the road from the datacenter and has an artificial sun outside his bedroom 24/7 and wants to burn the thing to the ground.

The only relevant difference between datacenters and agriculture is that we need one to survive as a species, the other is actively being used for malicious crimes against humanity.

This is true for code as well. Code is the specification, writing it in English and having a machine predict the details will only give you a worse result.

Welcome to the new internet. It was fun whilst it lasted. Next evolution will likely be closed, invite only forums.

This comment section is very astroturfed.

Same probably goes for slot machines if you strip them of all the bright, flashy colours and comforting sounds and make it a black metal box, with only a number display.

Its almost like... it was inherently designed to be as addictive as possible?

Genuinely curious, what is the benefit of doing this over just programming it yourself? It sounds to me like this is just an extra step that will grant you less control?

When programming a feature, you are simultaneously doing at least four things: 1. Implementing. 2. Building highly detailed mental models. 3. Learning and expanding your skillset. 4. Quality control and scope limiting.

And this process can be iterative and dynamic. Writing massive, super detailed specs that you then hand off to a undeterministic model feels like doing step one and three, while skipping two and four, which you then have to do after. What is the benefit? The speed up, in my opinion, comes if you skip step two and four, but then your product WILL be worse. Feels like I am going crazy?

Programming was never the bottleneck for software dev?

Yeah, thats likely true to some extent. But my point is perhaps a "counter-thought" to the idea that this is ASI level intelligence and that math is now a computer task and not a human one. If it is incapable of moving maths forwards into the "unknown" it simply can not replace humans, and this might be a hard structural block for LLM's.