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except....it didn't work??

I have had a Xiaomi robovacuum for 3 years, and it works without any part change to this day. Robovacuums came a long way.

I got just a blank page in dark grayish/brown color

Scifi just became real, and I don’t like it.

In many ways GPT-4 does a better impression of a human than any we have seen in Star Trek. Data couldn’t understand humor.

We were so sure of our own complexity, we projected onto the AI characters weaknesses. Then an AI comes up doing jokes in any topic you throw at it in any way you like.

Yet still some suggest I must be trolling with my post. I know my take is quite pessimistic but far from exaggeration, I didn’t even get as far as suggesting any SciFi level dangers in longer term.

hmm, actually thank you man. perhaps, you're right. I didn't see them as playing mind games with myself. I always thought of it as planning for the worst. But it is certainly a debilitating habit.

I do use Google in combination with GPT4 and give tips to it, to help. But it cut down my Google searches by a huge factor.

About in 5 years, imagine all of us, using Chatgpt in that time...along with all the enterprise integrations of it directly into workflow of companies through JIRA etc. (if not chatgpt, closed models could be trained in that time)

AI could even learn corporate politics from all the Slack, Jira etc. conversations. If this hype survives 5 years, and we keep putting data into it, it will only get more powerful from here on.

That's what I am thinking of doing if things go for worse. I am planning to do in 4-5 years time. I already have enough to buy a small house in the country side back in my home country. I could be building my own projects for fun.

I think you nailed it. My current fear arises from the fact, I am at one of the highest HCOL cities in the world in comparison to wages. This makes the fear more imminent, as I basically would have to move if my salary goes significantly lower.

That wouldn't be the case where I am originally from, in Scandinavia.

You're right. I am definitely biased as a long time techie. There is one downside though in our own sector in comparison, we are ready to give our data the fastest and the environment we work in allows for it.

>> I've always felt like with new technology, I could grok at a high level how things worked. But LLMs like GPT seem like magic

This is exactly how I feel. I felt so out of my depth looking at the ML architectures and I could not make any sense of it. I thought perhaps, they get inspired by neuroscience for the layers etc.

But a friend who works on LLMs mentioned, the architecture of large ML models, are mostly experimentally discovered, not designed. If that's the case, that's even worse... it means an entire field which perhaps could replace me in future, doesn't even have a knowledge foundation for its breakthroughs, but just goes by experiment... I thought it was only the weights inside the model that evolves, not the architecture itself.

Which body of knowledge do I study then, and is it even engineering anymore? That's something else, which I am not sure if my programming experience applies.

The amount of GPU/Capital it takes to evolve such architectures, run such experiments has to be prohibitively expensive.

I have experience in hardware/embedded and done industrial stuff, monitoring 100 to 1000 factories.

But the compensation is much lower in these fields in Europe/UK, compared to web :/

I know I will be taking the devils advocate to another level but…;

Is there such a thing as %150 developer, Is there a market for the %150 developer?

All of these are not yet answered or tested by the market.

You’re probably not talking to it right way. You need to build up the story. It doesn’t look up information, it only maintains coherence. You need to bring up key points for your design, have a chat. Then start asking for code. Unless you have a starting code, then give that and chat on top of it.

I am getting at least 5x boost in productivity.

Just last night, I solved 7-8 bugs consecutively.

Yeah I definitely won’t be quitting from my current job with high TC until I am fired of laid off.

Well, yeah, like I said I have been using it to build several projects.

My productivity definitely went up at least by a factor of 5 by a safe estimate.

This is amazing, all good, yeah. But doesnt that mean companies need 5x fewer people?

Yeah, but how do we protect and grow expertise when it can be easily copied in GPT-(n+1)

Exactly this. If I could, I would pin this comment.

It is not simply about job safety, it is about the career ladder.

When the career ladder is disrupted, how will even the banks evaluate someone’s ability to pay off mortgage for long term.

I didn’t expect this thread to blow up while I was away for lunch, hence no replies until now.

I built 4 projects so far with it. Out of these 3, 1 is clone of an app that has been charging 65usd per year. Other one was rehash/improvement on an existing app that has been selling for 25usd.

It took me under a day to build the prototype, a week to deploy/build installer.

The only thing left is to actually put them out in the market really.

This was just too easy.