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Which is basically what this study is showing.

Just have AI write requirements then another AI write specs based on the requirements then another AI write tests based on the specs and another AI write the implementation based on the tests then another AI write the PR based on the implementation then another AI approve the PR and another AI deploy approved PRs to production!

What could possibly go wrong?

The take away is that good, innovative art inevitably leads to Nazis.

Yes the job of the software engineering professional is now strictly non-functional requirements.

Cost, latency, security, auditing, monitoring, operating.

LLMs can handle the functional requirements of “give me this output for these inputs” very well.

So your company is taking many 10s of code generated by proprietary software whose own creators tell us cannot be fully trusted, and putting it straight into production?

What could possibly go wrong?

We use both terms here. Ginger has become more popular recently, probably due to UK Internet influence over recent years.

Some of the earliest photos after the photograph was invented are of people’s cats.

It’s why I had to give up Reddit entirely.

Impossible to follow any topic without it devolving into political flame wars.

Get rid of the other 20%.

I think Kamala would have been a terrible President but immeasurably better than Trump. She wasn’t openly, brazenly corrupt and self dealing nor an authoritarian with little interest in actual governing or the good of the nation he leads.

They will agree Trump is an idiot but quickly change the conversation to how Democrats are Even Worse.

The Supreme Court doesn't seem too interested in letting the 22nd Amendment slide.

Even they have their limits.

He will try but even the Supreme Court has shown they are willing to place limits on his power, ruling against him in some cases. So I don't think he has a pathway to bypassing the 22nd Amendment.

A world in which official statements from the US State Department and a joke are indistinguishable.

Oh, we are well aware.

Pretty sure even a lot of the current President's voters are slowly coming to this same realization. I predict soon in casual conversation almost no one will have voted for this man.

Similarly, printing more of a nation's currency does not increase inflation.

Yes but is that likely?

At least you know what the time commitment is up front. Not true of every company.

At least open source gives them an opportunity for the community to find a way to support it going forward. But I suppose that's just table stakes these days.

I would imagine even LLMs would do a better job reviewing smaller PRs than very large ones.

Why the hell would you put 50k lines into a single PR?

I mean, why even pretend you’re going to “review” something that large? Just build everything on main.

Yes but intentionally:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013534

Yes.

Tao points out that without the mechanism for disseminating the techniques used to construct the proof, the proof by itself is fairly useless. It’s not like the existence of the proof directly increases GDP or human health or flourishing in any direct way.

So what’s the value?

I will concede I should have said “net benefits”.

Where is the 30% unemployment figure coming from?

I’m not saying AI is not capable.

I’m saying with our current economic and political systems it’s only a lever for making the world worse faster.

What’s the value?

They should not solve the math problems. It’s simply a net negative for the world.

AI is fucking shit up for humans without providing any benefits.

It’s causing unemployment but no real gains unless you have a lot of equity and can benefit from lower costs from fewer people working.