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95% of human farmers lost their jobs because of industrial revolution. What happened then? No jobs were created and we still have 95% unemployment, right?

You generate 20k LOC in a few hours. How long will it take you to read it? One week? You just keep going instead. I don't think this works great at large scale production codebases yet, but it's an approach that will have more and more applications going forward. It doesn't have to fit every use case.

If an AI system autonomously built a rocket and went to the moon, would you call it unimpressive because it's already been done? The moving of goalposts is shocking.

You can sit down at a library or Barnes and Noble and memorize for free.

What makes you think they plateaued?

Is 75% of the country zoned SFH because of safety regulations or environmental reasons?

Why are you celebrating compute becoming more expensive? Do you actually think it will be good?

Being able to conduct monetary policy is valuable, even if it can be misused. Otherwise all other countries would just be using USD.

Some people sure, but "everyone"? Everyone's exaggerating nowadays.

The issue you're overlooking is the scarcity of experts. You're comparing the current situation to an alternative universe where every person can ask a doctor their questions 10 times a day and instantly get an accurate response.

That is not the reality we're living in. Doctors barely give you 5 minutes even if you get an appointment days or weeks in advance. There is just nobody to ask. The alternatives today are

1) Don't ask, rely on yourself, definitely worse than asking a doctor

2) Ask an LLM, which gets you 80-90% of the way there.

3) Google it and spend hours sifting through sponsored posts and scams, often worse than relying on yourself.

The hallucinations that happen are massively outweighed by the benefits people get by asking them. Perfect is the enemy of good enough, and LLMs are good enough.

Much more important also is that LLMs don't try to scam you, don't try to fool you, don't look out for their own interests. Their mistakes are not intentional. They're fiduciaries in the best sense, just like doctors are, probably even more so.

Where's the argument? Or we're just asserting things?

What have politicians been doing forever?

How does this add to the discussion? Is the goal to make HN as toxic as everywhere else online? If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise this performative negativity and cynicism is boring honestly.

Why did you waste all your money on 32gb when 4gb is enough? Why did we all need 32gb?