189 karma · joined July 9, 2021
Well, in theory this sounds reasonable. But who knows what will be the real consequences.
- Imagine a beach when meditating
- If you are nervous about giving a presentation, imaging that the audience is naked
- Count sheep in order to fall asleep fast
- Undressing someone with your eyes
- Visualising what is happening in the book you are reading.
I was completely sure that these were just metaphors. Imagine my shock when I realised that the majority of people can actually DO IT.
Of course, all of this is far-fetched. But it feels like most of these limiting things are achievable under certain conditions. If this is the case, the probability of them occuring is low, but not zero.
I agree with this in theory. But what are the actual examples of popular software becoming better thanks to AI?
This is in no way leads to the idea that Japan created the AI Race
I think that at this point, the idea becomes just a gatekeeping.
I have been writing notes in notebooks by my hand for years. But gradually I switched to typing notes in a notepad or drawing with a stylus on a gadget - and I don't notice any real difference.
Also, I think people aren't used that using such models requires meta.ai or meta ai app.
Both often work with unclear requirements, and sometimes may face floating bugs which are hard to fix, but in most cases, SWE create software that is expected to always behave in a certain way. It is reproducible, can pass tests, and the tooling is more established.
MLE work with models that are stochastic in nature. The usual tests aren't about models producing a certain output - they are about metrics, that, for example, the models produce the correct output in 90% cases (evaluation). The tooling isn't as developed as for SWE - it changes more often.
So, for MLE, working with AI that isn't always reliable, is a norm. They are accustomed to thinking in terms of probabilities, distributions, and acceptable levels of error. Applying this mindset to a coding assistant that might produce incorrect or unexpected code feels more natural. They might evaluate it like a model: "It gets the code right 80% of the time, saving me effort, and I can catch the 20%."
And Claude Code used Opus 4 now!
What if the work itself isn't "the most important" thing in the person's life?