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I can see your point, but on the other hand it seems like the only alternatives are a blanket ban on reverse engineering or a blanket allowance. I probably don't have to make the case for the value of reverse engineering here, so the question is to what degree it can be abused and if they have the responsibility to stop it. I would argue companies do have an obligation to consider and mitigate abuse of their product, especially frontier technologies. Probably the best outcome will be some kind of balance of judgment by the company.

You may want to change the logo, it is a different color but close enough to cause confusion. Not sure what a trademark court would say but it would definitely be enough to draw intimidation from Google if they wanted to.

I enjoyed this!

This is an interesting question to ask of any company. Every company over a long period is a Ship of Theseus. Google started out as a rowboat and now it is an ocean liner.

Investment in product quality, "Don't be evil", everything that set a company apart and allowed it to rise, it lasts only as long as it is preserved in a way that resists decay.

Is there anything left of the rowboat? I'm at the point where I am actively trying to shut Google out of my life to the degree that it is possible. And yet it is still not Microsoft. I catch a glimmer of the old google in a product release now and then.

While the Jan. 6th convicts all get pardons.

> The only way it will result in less work and the same or better quality of life is if you’re self-employed or are employed by a compassionate human.

May we take this as an opportunity to recognize what a bad deal we get from most employers and explore better ways to organize labor. It's never been more possible. UBI is unlikely to happen and uncertain it would even be beneficial. If AI can lead to a better world, this seems like the most promising path.

This is a very relatable sentiment. On the other hand, checking code is one of the best use-cases for an LLM, it is better at checking code than generating it.

It seems like the question is where to fit it in to the pipeline. The team responsible for reviewing submissions could leverage it to speed up the process, and still respond personally.

> Computer manufacturers devised a simple solution: add a TURBO button that would just slow your CPU down on demand.

I remember these! I could not figure out why it never seemed to make the computer faster and actually made it slower. TURBO was even written in italics to imply speed.

I suppose for some short time it may have actually overclocked the CPU, until the default clock speed caught up. After that, the turbo button was a lie.

Edit: Maybe I have it backwards, it sounds like on some machines it might have been in the underclocked condition when it was off. I just remember disappointing results with the machine that I used.

> generate 100 solutions cheaply without coordination between them and pick the winner with a relatively fast eval

While it might get workable results, this seems like a miserable way to work with code. You spend the vast majority of time thinking about the problem domain of working with agents instead of your project, and for mediocre output. You are transforming your role into a dumpster diver of code.

The approach that proves to be fastest in the long run is to stay close to the code. Lay out the base structure, and use an LLM to check your work and fill in the gaps. The beauty of this approach is that it scales very well with the size of the project. When the LLM has plenty of high quality examples to follow, they start to write the same code that you would. Where it diverges, create documentation.

Perhaps the single best property of LLMs is their ability to consume and apply examples and documentation.

Well said. Attribution is important, for obvious human reasons and to direct people to valuable context. But our names will fade fast from history, what matters is the journey of human knowledge.

> It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

--Harry S. Truman

Every movement has a counter movement.

I've been using it to generate animated svgs. I made a breakthrough in asking it to create bones/rigging and movement with a python library and apply the result to the svg.