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Comment · 1 month ago
It’s layoffs if the demand doesn’t grow to meet the output
Comment · 1 month ago
I mean, that’s like half an hour of tokens, right? (Half joking laugh/cry etc)
Comment · 1 month ago
I legit thought that this was what was being sold here
Comment · 1 month ago
Noooo Strange New Worlds was the best thing that ever happened to trek
Comment · 1 month ago
My main agentic coding side project is something that I can't justify paying the apple developer license for. If I was an Android person or I didn't have to pay the developer license, maybe I'd just go for it.
Comment · 2 months ago
This kind of thing came up from time to time in the years before LLMs too. Agents would start with something based on English and optimize it until it became unintelligible to researchers. That was often something the researchers would shut down because they needed to be able to understand the comms.
Comment · 2 months ago
Would love to know what he thinks nowadays
Comment · 2 months ago
I think I do agree with the central point but a point of order is that if you tell AI to fix the bug and then tell it to fix the next error you might still be building an important skill: learning how to make the AI get good results.
Comment · 2 months ago
My unsupervised agentic setup has built something that I wanted for decades but never built, so I guess that’s an increase in capabilities.
Comment · 2 months ago
I’m curious, what was the application of AI that helped the family?
Comment · 2 months ago
This is exactly my experience. A month of excitement building something that I wouldn’t have had time to do myself, then something broke in the setup and my motivation didn’t extend to fixing it.

I’m only back at it four months later and I don’t really know what happened before, or why it’s working now, I’m just happy that I can scratch that itch again.

Comment · 2 months ago
That’s a measure of lines of code, I suspect the parent is talking about what results those LOC create.

AI built me a 1.5k+ LOC react component which is probably a 15x increase on the file size I would have created, with negative impact on the project for those extra LOC.

Comment · 2 months ago
I think that people probably tried to tell me about the amazing stuff, but I couldn't take it in. This created a very pleasant surprise for me when I found out about the good feels after the dread of just expecting everything I know to be upended with no reward.
Comment · 2 months ago
Well, a tiny fraction less than half the American people, at least the first time?
Comment · 2 months ago
Do the agents come preinstalled in the images? Or do they somehow use whatever I’ve installed locally? The former makes sense to me but then I’m wondering whether the sandbox images stay up to date with new releases of each image.

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