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by i2km 6d ago
But we can’t do away with the quasi-religious lip service to the canons of the AI creed now can we? /s
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by i2km 6d ago
And in general, especially with something like C, the correspondence between the compiled code and source code isn’t very “lossy”. You don’t get one-to-one correspondence but it’s not too bad and you’re not introducing massive uncertainty b
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by i2km 7d ago
Along with putting estimated reading times (21 minutes in this case) can authors please start putting estimated writing times? Did it take 10 seconds of prompting? Or hours of thought, trial error and revision? Especially when asking people
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by i2km 27d ago
But but according to Mr Altman, we've like entered the singularity. Right? Who cares about a billing issue?
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by i2km 27d ago
Precisely. I think everyone has been affected by the fearmongering and gaslighting to some dfgree. But step back and try and see whether software's getting better as a whole or going into reverse? OpenAI has basically unlimited interna
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by i2km 1mo ago
No. The particular context I’m referring to doesn’t have any legal implications so it’s not that. It’s just brain-deadness instead
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by i2km 1mo ago
That's a fair challenge. AI review can mean many different things though. We treat it like a slightly better CppCheck, for context. TBH the way we use it doesn't really add much beyond regular static analysis tools. Re "the h
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by i2km 1mo ago
Exactly. It fascinates me when I'm emailed long AI transcripts of meetings with the disclaimer "generated by AI. Be sure to check for accuracy". Like, did somebody seriously think through the meaning and implication of that d
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by i2km 1mo ago
Exactly. It's quite scary that some people are reacting viciously to this type of question. There's real insecurity here...
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by i2km 1mo ago
I do. I deny the "gains". The "gains" will turn out to be a mirage in the medium to long term. The technical and cognitive debt incurred will be too extreme.
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by i2km 1mo ago
I'm running a startup and we deliberately don't use AI for development. We only use it for review. We're working in a really deep area where having full understanding of our code is more important than speed. Besides, in this
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by i2km 2mo ago
Article predicts that we'll see tools to "roughen up" slop to pass as human. Surprised we aren't there already... I'm already being more careless with spelling and grammar because it gives authenticity. Maybe people
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Amazon finds cases of AI causing runaway spending on tech projects(ft.com)
5 points by i2km 2mo ago|2 comments
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by i2km 2mo ago
"employees were told about one instance in which the company spent $1.8mn on matching author details with listings on the group’s ecommerce website using Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet AI model despite the deployment failing" Also cont
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by i2km 2mo ago
Well, it seems to be meta-marketing. Essentially they'd trained the model with knowledge of exploits and given it a goal. Of course the training would allow it to 'reason' that having the answers would be a good way to score
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by i2km 2mo ago
It's so bizarre. I keep on wondering where the root of this psychosis lies. Is there some common sci-fi literature that sparks these fears among the readers? Or is it all just latent religiosity and spirituality finding an outlet? I me
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by i2km 3mo ago
Couldn't anthropic just use fable to find security holes in Alibaba's systems and poison their models? Or maybe there's been a bit too much hype...
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by i2km 3mo ago
It's somewhat difficult to have any sympathy for Anthropic here. They're entirely responsible for selling tokens at below cost, with the age-old bait-and-switch tactic. If they weren't doing so, then these Chinese resellers w
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by i2km 3mo ago
Surely what's coming is them offering to fix your vulnerabilities via higher-margin professional services?
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by i2km 3mo ago
Shocking. Been open a week and AFAICT just silence from OpenAI. I just find it baffling. You'd think that these vendors would be very sensitive to this sort of issue. I mean, surely they have multiple agents hooked up to github monitor
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by i2km 3mo ago
Ridiculous. Haven't you heard? All critical thinking skills have long since been sacrificed on the altars of the AI gods and it's inconceivable that we write any code the old way. If you actually understand your code it means you&
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by i2km 3mo ago
My theory is that anthropic have hit the beginnings of model collapse and the whole "fable may silently downgrade with deliberately incorrect results" is a diabolical attempt to gas light and get ahead of the curve. So when it fai
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by i2km 4mo ago
It's bizarre isn't it. It being treated as though actually knowing how to write quality code by hand is a skill that's somehow been lost to time... I can only guess that a lot of the engineers who went into software purely fo
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by i2km 4mo ago
As a thought experiment, would their reaction have been any different if the hidden prompt had caused their agent to enter an expensive coding loop instead of just deleting the dependency + tests? If I were to use coding agents/LLMs (I
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by i2km 4mo ago
Much as I dislike some of Peter Thiel's ideas, I fully agree with him that Rene Girard's theory of mimetic desire is at the heart of the explanation. We've always been imitators who need to copy behavior and sentiments, but s
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by i2km 4mo ago
If you're willing to go back to the 13th century, Aquinas and the blindness of the mind provide a timeless explanation. They literally cannot see the truth... it's baffling until you realise this and then pity them. They’re in a m
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by i2km 4mo ago
Of the same mind. It's a mass panic with overtones of covid. The only explanation I can think of is that most of those who are convinced that AI is going to make engineering redundant are those who've never ventured into the deepe
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by i2km 4mo ago
This is one of the things people miss. If they double their customers, of course they double their expenses. Unlike SW, the marginal cost here is still high
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by i2km 4mo ago
The readme is an immediate giveaway of sloppiness
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by i2km 4mo ago
Really appreciate this discussion as I'll be shortly going through this with a 1-2 person company. Does anyone have any experience on how it compares to ISO27001 from the 1-2 person company feasibility standpoint?

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