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It's just data processing. If it wasn't trained to speak like a human you would have no problems in seeing it's a machine. Try to ask it to create a joke about some topics and you can easily see it's just a robot. The lesson to take is not that we are not prepared to assume other type of intelligence is "real". The lesson here is that we humans fool ourselves when we are exposed to some kinds of data. Remember, you can simulate an AI with pen an paper, and the speed at which you simulate it doens't make a difference, it's provably deterministic (a part from randomness that doesn't change a thing for the point). Good look in proving that humans are deterministic.

nowadays people will have it like either full AI or no AI, guess which one this project went like

I think that what we really need is a global label that makes it easy to see if a project blocks AI contributions and modified software licenses that make it explicit that AI agents cannot use the code of software under that license. I'm up for that. It sucks to try to find a stable, meticulously handcrafted tool and getting spammed with vibecoded stuff.

F* Rust. If AI finds every bug then Rust choice is pointless for those who still care about programming. Real programmers that like to code have no reason to lose time with Rust. Let's leave Rust for vibe coders.

Leftism, progressism or wtv tries to remove all social value from individuals for their beliefs. Leftists tried to make the world lose respect for people like J. K. Rowling, Elon Musk and recently DHH. If some people say something that is not illegal but is deemed to be offending by leftists, they go tribal gang on that person and try to devalue all they work. I myself prefer to live in a world where people is free to express their thoughts even if they are being retarded at it.

It's not about what the customer complains or notices at short term, is about having a quality system that can be augmented without accumulating same kind of debt. I can give a simple example. I have a coder here that filled the crontab of a server with periodic tasks. One of them was doing +200 failed requests per second and shutdown one of our routers. The router wrote so much logs that it changed the health of its internal disk from 15% to 85%. He doesn't even know what the crontab is. This kind of stuff is bound to happen more and more because the more you use AI to vibe, the more disconnected you get from the technology. And that's why I say, the only way that yolo vibecoding could work is if the base stuff didn't matter.

I'm a software engineer, I do software development but also system maintenance, and I do handle networking and telephony systems, and work with some juniors. Working with AI is problematic. It can speed up you but at the same time delay you. For the system maintenance part sometimes you need to do a lot of stuff fast and in various machines and you can't just count on a cloud based AI oracle (that takes time) to do your job for you. And the same time, the more you use it as a oracle, the less competent you get. If you are an expert, I would say in any area, you do benefit from using AI as a tool but it easily can become a double edged sword and make you less proficient. For juniors, it can make them rapidly produce stuff that is impressive and works ok for sites and some visual stuff, but it's impossible for a junior to become an expert if they get stuck in the AI using loop. For AI to cause a clean impact, I would say that we would have to live in a world where software engineering didn't matter. That is, the choice of databases, high availability systems, the programming languages themselves.

Yeah that's why I said "right now people is". Then, ∀ for intermediate steps is not the same as ∀ for the final solution of Millennium Prize Problems' level. Fable exists for some 6 months now, internally, so the frontier kind of is a bit old right now, we will see how fast things keep going.

Not an anti-AI view at all, but right now people is exaggerating a bit on the "AI is solving math". For now they are good at finding holes on theories, proving by negation, not proving for all cases, nor coming up with new theories.

I don't understand why there are so many people that think this is fake / false flag / promotional. It's obvious that llm's can do crazy computations and might get to a point where they get them to recursively evolve. They are still algorithms, they still can't do stuff that humans do but they can get scary. My point is, it's normal that humans exposed to their current frontier picture llm's doing more crazy stuff.. why would it have to be fake?

I think it really depends on your knowledge and skill, and the kind of work you are using it for. It's hard to measure because the more you use it the more you lose some skills. But I have to admit that I can do much more parallel work when using the best models. It's messy, because sometimes I feel that I get lazier and just prompt them and go do some random stuff and sometimes even skip the part of verifying what they actually did meanwhile. But you can command AI to do massive stuff, you can get smart non developers to do useful work with them, it's really a new paradigm. One funny thing that I think people should consider more is pride in the code. If I code something by hand, like fully developing a service, I will get proud of seeing it work, I will attach to it like if it's my creation. That hardly happens if I use AI a lot.

Thank you for such a quality post.

Nvidia, Anthropic and OpenAI are controlling everything, and nothing is improving for everyone, quite the opposite. So I just hope they crash to the ground.

The Chinese are really going strong on destroying the American AI economy bubble. Honestly, despite the fact that I'm totally pro USA and anti China, I think we should help them crashing the American AI bubble. They are controlling everything and we can't even buy a new computer nowadays while getting no benefit from this. I wish some influential programmers stimulated coders everywhere to skip Claude and Chatgpt subscriptions for Chinese ones, at scale. If we programmers united we could help this bubble burst, I'm sure.