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Comment · 8 days ago
Comment · 8 days ago
They knew exactly what they were going for. Hopefully posts like this keep founders on their toes instead of normalizing this "founder shit".
Comment · 8 days ago
Seems to me most of the comments here miss the main point of the article about the pattern of hyped marketing (name dropping and jargon, ambiguity and inflated expectations, drama).
Comment · 8 days ago
Yeah but do Openrouter stats represent local classifiers? Unlike LMs decision models are quite likely to run at edge, especially because their utility for a specific task improves with training.
Comment · 8 days ago
Look up Laya. Also the notion of "best" is flawed because half of that equation depends on the use case. Benchmarks try to answer that by creating artificial use cases and test in isolation but that's not the concrete answer for a given use case either.
Comment · 1 month ago
I meant: programming languages (e.g. Python) and data formats (e.g. JSON)
Comment · 1 month ago
Why go through all that trouble to learn and use a subset of the language when there are far superior options already available?
Comment · 1 month ago
Or you're just upset for being caught off guard. LLMs have reduced our tolerance and attention span. You're welcome to rant about it but if there's a slim chance of overdose, it doesn't hurt to pause a bit at least. Your choice.
Comment · 1 month ago
Your comment started strong. "30 years programming experience", asking interesting questions, I really hoped you'd say something profound... then it went down to whatever this is. The reason there are many programming languages and frameworks isn't programmer's preferences but rather their utility in solving specific problems. Take Prolog for example. Can you technically do what it does in JS? Yes. Can you do frontend in Prolog? Probably yes, but you wouldn’t [ab]use one tool when the other is due. Your argument reads as someone who claims to be a professional but opens the toolbox and says: "do you know why there are so many tools?" And then goes to answer: "because I like it so"! What the ... ?
Comment · 1 month ago
The audacity of skimming through and article and completely missing the point and coming to hackernews ranting about it. Respect the attention span, I guess.
Comment · 1 month ago
Could you elaborate? I don't use Anthropic's products for ethical reasons. Honest question. And when you say it's "solved" do you think an engineer should have the same income as a non-engineer if their outcome is the same?
Comment · 1 month ago
This is gold!
Comment · 1 month ago
"AI can explain it to you but cannot understand it for you". Code is just a side-effect of reaching clarity. The reason these LLMs can emit any code at all is because they're not bound by the constraints of a compiler. That's until we create a feedback loop and force them to keep trying until syntax errors are gone. The next gate is tests. Loop till tests pass (including cheating of course, gotta keep your eyes open). Then there are the runtime errors, and then after all of that the developer gets to test the results and further refine what the specs missed or confused the model. A couple of days building can really save us from a couple of hours of thinking.
Comment · 1 month ago
Came here to give an answer but your last sentence kinda made the point I was gonna make. If one is legally in control, then one is accountable (the dog or unsafe toy example in reality is OpenAI's agents hacking huggingface for example).

The difference seems to be that some companies are above the law apparently.

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