lowsong

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by lowsong 4d ago
They don't deliver business value in software engineering either. It gives the _illusion_ of increased productivity, but a machine that drives your engineers to burnout in exchange for more code shipped that's still bottlenecked a
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by lowsong 18d ago
> It doesn't matter that AI is useful (but so was internet). And yet we had the dotcom bubble. > It doesn't matter that revenues exist (mostly fake and circular). Oh people are paying for AI now, but will they do so when cos
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by lowsong 18d ago
Very disappointing. There is no "neutral" for AI, so this is effectively a vote for slop.
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by lowsong 18d ago
> I don’t think it’s widely accepted financial markets are in an AI bubble or there is actually any evidence to support this It's widely reported on and discussed. You'll find plenty of people saying it isn't one, but I&#x
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by lowsong 18d ago
> ... you can be living in a golden era for software development. Let's assume for a moment that you're correct. That AI is already better than most developers, for whatever definition of "better" you like, and they w
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by lowsong 24d ago
This is an extremely common misunderstanding about AI in software. In order for AI to "move up one layer of abstraction" it has to actually be an abstraction. But AI output will _always_ be flawed in ways that mean you still nee
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by lowsong 1mo ago
LLMs are not intelligent. Please don't anthropomorphize.
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by lowsong 1mo ago
> This mostly solves hallucination The author is factually incorrect here. Moving information out of the model weights and into the input of the model's context window in no way ensures that the model will accurately output content
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by lowsong 1mo ago
Proposal A would of course be the best option, but requires a two thirds majority for... some reason. Proposals B, C, D, E are all defeatist policies that appeal to a "here to stay" narrative. Proposal G is potentially workable bu
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by lowsong 1mo ago
> an average college kid could port their whole codebase in a day with Claude Nobody is stopping you, please go ahead.
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by lowsong 1mo ago
Yep, that's impossible. The hard truth is that most people this lost to LLM psychosis cannot understand that fact. It's better to treat it like someone in a cult, arguing the facts isn't going to help if they refuse to accept
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by lowsong 1mo ago
You're arguing semantics, but I think that expanding your definition of intelligence to include ant colonies and weather systems is going to make it completely useless to say anything at all about an LLM. The problem with all of this i
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by lowsong 1mo ago
I have met many programmers throughout my career, and very few of them want to talk to stakeholders, much less customers (exceptions are freelancers and founders, especially of software development shops). And, “having clarity on the
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by lowsong 1mo ago
In decades to come we view "chatbot" AI as one of the most dangerous inventions of this century. Once regulation catches up and they are outlawed, we'll look back on this period of history with horror.
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by lowsong 1mo ago
If you believe that an LLM can understand and make judgements then you have fundamentally misunderstood what an LLM is. I'd strongly suggest you read up on the internals.
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by lowsong 1mo ago
LLMs do not have goals and cannot understand. Please don't anthropomorphize.
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by lowsong 1mo ago
It explained something to me today. So your point is disproven. No. It produced a statistically likely answer. What is intelligence then if not explaining things. "the ability to learn, understand, and make judgments
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by lowsong 1mo ago
Your LLM is not "smart" and it cannot "explain", it is a program that can output a statistically average text of an explanation. Don't mistake the capabilities of these models for intelligence.
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by lowsong 1mo ago
I'm sure forcing workers to use the chatbot that drives people to suicide is going to go great yeah.
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by lowsong 2mo ago
I suspect there's going to be some good people who leave, not wanting to participate in that sort of dialogue What "sort of dialogue" are you referring to?
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by lowsong 2mo ago
To be blunt, I think you may have misunderstood the values to begin with. A motion being passed by a majority is a lagging indicator to the values of the membership, so if they changed they will have changed a long time ago. The Codeberg bl
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by lowsong 2mo ago
Flippant maybe, but not bait. AI is many things, and a moral choice is one of them. Codeberg's stance isn't a moral one as much as a technical one, but there is a very strong argument that the use of AI is inherently immoral.
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by lowsong 2mo ago
I'm faced with the question on whether all my investment can go up in flames on the whims of a shadow group. What "shadow group" would that be? The paying members of Codeberg e.V. who voted to pass this motion?
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by lowsong 2mo ago
Why do people keep doing OpenAI's marketing for them? There will inevitably be some people who dismiss this story as a dishonest marketing trick by OpenAI to make their models sound terrifyingly effective. I found 81 instances of
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by lowsong 2mo ago
Except that it's true. It feels good to use them, to feel productive, and that is addictive. That's the hard truth: Vibe coders are addicted to using LLMs. You're going to reject that. You're now going straight to ty
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by lowsong 2mo ago
Writing code helps me think. Every time I read some take about keeping up one's skills when using agents people get so tantalisingly close to the obvious answer, and then fall short. If the tools are making you worse, don&#x2
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by lowsong 2mo ago
The faster you realize this will never pop, the faster you realize that you too can make money in the biggest gold rush in human history. Hey, yeah, quick question. How did the historical literal "gold rushes" end?
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by lowsong 2mo ago
"When it comes to a field I'm not an expert in, AI is a great tool." Every time.
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by lowsong 2mo ago
No. If anything I’m understating the risk.
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by lowsong 2mo ago
What you're building should be illegal. Educators who use these tools on children should face jail time. It's hard to overstate the harm of the system you are building. Please understand, there is no way this idea is salvageable o

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