boshalfoshal

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by boshalfoshal 4d ago
I think you fundamentally misunderstand what kind of company Anthropic is. I'm simply taking the path of least resistance when understanding what people at Anthropic have to say, and basically every public source points to Anthropic ta
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by boshalfoshal 4d ago
Code in most organizations is a means to an end to produce an actual product. The job of a SWE is to not produce the most sublime readable code with cute language bells and whistles that you can show off to your other programmer friends. Ye
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by boshalfoshal 4d ago
Navier Stokes, and _allegedly_ the Hodge Conjecture and Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer.
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by boshalfoshal 4d ago
Yes these guys are completely delusional. 2 years ago a model could barely solve the AMC, 1 year ago it got IMO gold, and this year models have solved multiple millenium problems. Even 1 year ago ai code was just unusable (claude code only
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by boshalfoshal 4d ago
This is just completely false lol. They most certainly can make better models - why cant people here just read this for face value? I think anthropic is legitimately concerned about the safety implications of stronger models. Race dynamics
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by boshalfoshal 6d ago
Once we have an existence proof of a particular technology, it doesn't take long for it to become economically viable and proliferate. And for something as useful as this, theres a strong economic incentive to get it to be as cheap and
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by boshalfoshal 6d ago
I don't get how this invalidates the gravity of this achievement. Most mathematicians on the frontier of this stuff were likely using AI (or at the very least were heavily computer assisted) for some time now. Navier stokes was one of
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by boshalfoshal 6d ago
People seem to be talking about anything except the actual results with this particular announcement. Its still astonishing that any sort of generalized computer program can solve a problem of this magnitude, and we have witnessed it happen
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by boshalfoshal 8d ago
lol, the "other work" was also probably 95-99% AI generated. By a similar breed of OpenAI (and some Anthropic) models, as well. I dont know why this monumental achievement is being drowned out by some arbitrary drama. No matter wh
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by boshalfoshal 22d ago
The only thing here that _maybe_ has a durable long term moat is the first point. Even then, I don't see why stronger models can't also have discernment once more companies close the loop with their AI and their relevant company m
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by boshalfoshal 22d ago
This is unironically the best comparison. maybe they became taxi drivers. But that too will be gone soon. Can't beat capitalism + technological innovation.
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by boshalfoshal 22d ago
What does "learning AI skills" even mean? You're typing into a prompt box. You are not applying any skill, the model is. At best, the skill you need is discernment about _what_ to type in this magical box. But if that gets ch
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by boshalfoshal 22d ago
To the surprise of who, exactly? Sometimes it feels like HN has never used an AI model past ChatGPT in 2022. Modern AI is so capable nowadays that it _does_ obviate most of the work you'd normally give an entry level person. Im mostly
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by boshalfoshal 2mo ago
I think most of HN can't logically arrive at this conclusion because they don't exactly buy into the premise that (1) (digital) AGI is a real concept, and will be achieved imminently (2) AGI will be world (and possibly more) chang
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by boshalfoshal 2mo ago
> The jobs growing are the ones where the work product is judgment about what code should exist. And how many people do you need for this? There are many roles where people are literally hired for their programming/engineering skill
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by boshalfoshal 2mo ago
I don't get why people care about "the death of junior SWEs" and "its a big issue if there are no junior programmers to be the senior SWEs of tomorrow" Just look at the writing on the wall, there will be no need for
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by boshalfoshal 2mo ago
wow an actual ai-pilled comment on here for once, I agree with your sentiment. People opining about "rebuilding the ladder" have no idea whats coming for the software industry, and the general populous of white collar work. "
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by boshalfoshal 3mo ago
This _was_ done a couple of decades ago, it was available on the downloadable version of google earth (when it existed). I remember playing around with it in 2012.
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by boshalfoshal 3mo ago
This is just false. For starters, your users most _definitely_ don't care about how "elegant" your code is either. They want new features to keep them engaged, or to make the product better. The quicker they get those wants f
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by boshalfoshal 3mo ago
This is obviously the case to me, but I think HN is very anti-AI. I genuinely don't believe that they sat down in a board room and said "yeah lets specifically release this now before an IPO so we can juice it!" They haven&#x
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by boshalfoshal 4mo ago
Its AI. Both AI actually being good now, and CEOs believing AI is good. Even at most big tech companies, L3 engineers were basically the "claudes" of their team (or at least, 80% of their job was basically to be a "claude&quo
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by boshalfoshal 4mo ago
Conspiratorially, it seems like a shotgun attempt at undermining the supposed OpenAI IPO later this year. Also filing an S-1 doesn't actually indicate that they intend to go public "immediately," it just gives them the option
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by boshalfoshal 4mo ago
Its been 6 years, how are you still blaming covid overhiring?
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by boshalfoshal 5mo ago
SpaceX is _not_ profitable by most reasonable measurements of accounting. If you discount rocket depreciation costs and R&D, then yeah its profitable from starlink revenue.
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by boshalfoshal 5mo ago
Apart from your last paragraph which is a little contentious, I agree with what you say. I dont understand why people here require that every tech ceo to be some professional programmer or engineer. I don't think you _need_ to be that
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by boshalfoshal 5mo ago
unironically true
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by boshalfoshal 5mo ago
The joke is that "taste" usually implies you have some strong personal sense of self and style, but if you walked into tech offices in the bay area everyone looks like that and acts/talks the same. So its ironic that these sa
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by boshalfoshal 5mo ago
The thing is, do humans _need_ most software? The less surfaces that need to interact with humans, the less you need humans in the loop to design those surfaces. In a hypothetical world where maybe some AI agents or assistants do the vast m
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by boshalfoshal 5mo ago
I think "taste" is definitely an overused meme at this point, its like tech twitter discovered this word in 2024 and never stopped using it (same with "agency", "high leverage", etc). Having read the article, I
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by boshalfoshal 6mo ago
Well considering basically the entire market was down these past few days, Google included, its unlikely attributable to this paper alone. Its most likely correlated with general war/trade route restrictions/potential recession f

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