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Especially if given near unlimited tokens to burn through, because any level of success fuels the LLM hype machine, which brings ROI.

> It’s engineering.

Significantly, but not totally. The marketing value can't be ignored.

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What do you think one would have to pay to have flesh-and-blood engineers get a cross-language port of a codebase of over half a million lines with a broad test suite to over 99% conformance? I think it would be astronomically high, especially given that for this specific project your hiring pool is going to be limited to people who can get up to speed with Zig and JavaScriptCore right away (or you’re going to have to pay them for low output for a while as you train them). Also it would be literally impossible to do in 6 days no matter how much money you paid, so unless they’re lying about that it’s still something that couldn’t have been done prior for any price.

More handwaving about the LLM hype machine is incredibly boring and enough of it is spewed everywhere that whatever social good it was going to accomplish must have already happened by now. If you want to inject reality into the situation, talk about reality (like Anthropic is at least pretending to).

The hype machine is real and we will talk about it as long as it pleases us. It took decades to get rid of smoking in public places and restaurants, and the clankers will eventually fall, too.

So cash out before that.

Did I say it wasn’t real? Or tell you that you couldn’t talk about it? No, I just pointed out that it’s all anybody talks about and it’s boring and doesn’t engage with anything specific about this stunt/project. And I can make melodramatic analogies too — like to the panic about global overpopulation that led to mass sterilizations in The Emergency. Panic is not an unalloyed good, and if you want to fight “the clankers” you should understand what they are and are not capable of.

Also I already cashed out, jokes on you.

Anti AI cope is unreal, the comparisons to smoking won't stop lol. The mental model of such people (like you) will be studied. LLM's won't go anywhere, keep dreaming.

Studied by whom? Your virtual AI concubine who has you under her thumb? I thought human thinking is obsolete, as can be seen by your comments.

Sure. Let’s see whether ai sticks or not. Till then whine about it in the internet. Maybe a few would care

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