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I knew even before clicking what movie (and before that, book) the headline was talking about.

Why not have the LLM go straight to LLVM IR? What would a program look like when you remove all (or most) of the layers of abstraction needed by humans? Or are LLMs too contaminated by the training data to do this? I almost wish I could try this.

> When I first started, I was enamored with technology and programming and computer science. I’m over it.

Wow, that is incredibly sad to hear. I'm 40+ years in, and still love all of that.

How is that "threatening"? Genuinely curious.

Looks like they just updated it. Check under the globe.

I have an experimental project where I was asking various LLMs/tools (ChatGPT, Cursor, Google, Lovable) to implement an old game for me. They all failed spectacularly in various ways. For example, when trying to debug an issue, got into a loop making the same sets of mistakes over and over again. Or "solving" a problem by removing an implementation, or claiming something was fixed but all it did was stop checking the error. It's been disastrous.

I've had better success with LLMs as just a supercharged search engine, but only after I went through several rounds of adding instructions to prevent hallucinations and lies.

I also asked one to create a tutorial for me to follow in regards to a complicated game I'm trying to understand. It lied repeatedly, making up features and telling me to set options that just didn't exist.

My boss loves LLMs and claims it really improved his productivity, but the stuff he's talking about is JS stuff. When he (and I as well) try to use it with Java the viability of the results drops off dramatically.

As I commented in the other post, it killed mine at work, because my boss is pushing "AI" really hard on the devs. Fortunately, he's now seeing enough evidence to counteract the hype, but it's still going to be present and dragging down my work. But it my off time, I only experiment with LLMs to see if they're getting better. Spoiler alert: they aren't, at least not for the kind of things I want to do.

I'm 62, and it's had the opposite effect on me. I've never stopped loving writing code, learning new things, trying random stuff, etc. I code all day, and spend more time playing with stuff in the evenings (the main difference is I'm sipping some scotch while I do it). Having to use LLM's at work has sucked most of the joy out of my work. Fighting with them, keeping them on track, catching hallucinations before they go too far, wasted effort...it's exhausting me like nothing else in my 40+ year career.

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

Pretty neat, though.

My Nvidia Shield Portable is sad to hear this. They updated it to Lollipop 5.1 and then killed it. Pretty much useless now.

The worst excesses of "modern" web presentation, coupled with a complete lack of actual gardening info...I'm completely baffled. 1% "here's your zone", and 99% "your zone is almost no use for gardening"

> People often don't perceive you as an actual human if you've only ever been a video square to them.

I don't have a camera, so I'm just a picture of Uncle Fester. No one I work with (across 3 jobs) has seen me in nearly 5 years.

I had (probably still have) a similar-ish problem. I have an old nVidia Shield handheld that I bought a wired ethernet adapter for. Something about that adapter would kill my network dead after a random interval. It took a while to figure out what device was causing it, and unplugging the adapter would instantly cause the network to come back to life. I never figured out what the root cause was, I just stopped using the adapter.

It's unlikely that "regulators" had anything to do with it, given the quick resolution. I'd be more inclined to think that Epic went back to Apple hat-in-hand and begged to be let back in, probably promising to muzzle Sweeney.

> And they should have been held accountable, were they?

Huge stock hit (since recovered, of course), top executives lost their jobs, fines, had to give away a paid product, extra oversight, cost of fixing security, several rounds of layoffs for the employees, etc.

> It is not unreasonable then we should actually physically destroy their premises and all related collected information as an active threat to the nation

This is why we can't get real, meaningful change. No wonder our "leaders" think so little of us.