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Comment · 10 months ago
These people ganging up on you, felt really bad because I support your claim.

Let me help you with a context where LLMs actually shine and is a blessing. I think it is also same with Karpathy who comes from research.

In any research, replicating paper is wildy difficult task. It takes 6-24 months of dedicated work across an entire team to replicate a good research paper.

Now, there is a reason why we want to do it. Sometimes the solution actually lies in the research. Most of research is experimental and garbage code anyway.

For each of us working in research, LLM is blessing because of rapid prototyping it provides.

Then there are research engineers whose role is to apply research to production code. We as research engineers really don't care about the popular library. As long as something does the job, we will just roll with it.

The reason is simple because there is nothing out there that solved the problem.

As we move further from research, the tools we build will find all sort of issues and we improve on them.

Idk about what people think about webdev, but this has been my perspective in SWE in general.

Most of the webdevs here who are coping with the fact that their react skill matters are quite delusional because they have never traversed the stack down to foundation. It doesn't matter how you render the document as long as you render it.

Every abstraction originates from research and some small proof of concept. You might reinvent abstraction, but when the cost of reinventing it is essentially zero then you are stilfing your own learning because you are choosing to exploit vs choosing to explore.

There is a balance and good engineers know it. Perhaps all of the people who ganged up on you never approached their work this way.

Comment · 1 year ago
one example is third world country offering the same or similar breakfast as the home country for the travellers.

also saying majority and not all.

Comment · 1 year ago
corrected the title.

Thanks!

Comment · 1 year ago
What does it mean for us? Where are we headed?

There is somewhere between 3 to 5 years of time left. This is maximum we can think of.

Comment · 1 year ago
hah! there was once time I proposed this very project in my statement of purpose, they rejected for PhD application

I see huge potential in 3D coming up.

Prediction: 2030 is when 3D blows up. Brush your graphics guys, we are going full spatial

Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah but even if I go and post there, it will be downvoted because of how ridiculous and controversial it is. People can't digest it.
Comment · 1 year ago
I am sorry I really can't say it. It is wildly controversial.
Comment · 1 year ago
Obviously I can't write controversial stuff under these topics.
Comment · 1 year ago
Anything that is against the norm is easily flagged. So can't talk about it at all. Everyday I am witnessing massive wealth transfer. If I am aware, pretty sure there are lot of others too. Just want to know how others are thinking about it. Because I foresee our life changing massively in 2-3 years from now on.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is a really nice perspective!

> It could just as easily only help a select group of people and I'd argue that this is the most likely outcome

Currently it is only applicable to us who are programming!

Yeah, even if it gets away all the quirks, using it would still be better.

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