Ross Perot

Ah yes, the billionaire. Electing a billionaire businessman is just what the US needs, right?

The world is not that simple. There are too many combinations to try. And you risk hitting local maxima, even if doing the gradient thing.

I were simply unable to convince Codex to split a patch into separate git commits in a meaningful way. There are things that just doesn’t work.

Still useful for lots of stuff. Just don’t use it blind.

If used by an expect developer, then the combinations are not just random “lucky” choices.

Well, yes, that is a central point.

I am a senior programmer. LLMs are amazing - I know exactly what I want, and I can ask for it and review it. My productivity has gone up at least 3-fold, with no decrease in quality, by using LLMs responsibly.

But it seems to me that some people on social media just can’t imagine using LLMs in this way. They just imagine that all LLM usage is vibe coding, using the output without understanding or review. Obviously you are very unlikely to create any fundamentally new solutions if you only use LLMs that way.

only to find out you didn’t provide adequate requirements for your config.

Senior programmer. I know exactly what I want. My requirement communicated to the LLM are precise and adequate.

The database was an arbitrary example. A more relevant example would be tenserflow layers in a neural network. As I understand it, you can in some cases get a novel solution to a problem just by choosing a smart enough combination, with the right data.

ChatGPT absolutely knows how to help doing the grunt work setting up the tenserflow configuration, following your directions.

Even novel solutions are usually built out of smaller common building blocks. E.g. many novel solutions surely use a database. You can make the LLM help you set up and use the database, that your novel solution uses.

As I read it, they are scared of the Chinese Communist Party having an “official” back door built in. Not run-of-the-mill criminal bot-nets.

From a narrow ethical standpoint, there is no issue I can see?

No, because there is a high chance of genetic defects if you accidentally have a child.

There is a power imbalance when dating your daughter. Just like a teacher is generally not allowed to date their student. So there is an issue with dating your daughter.

Wrestling terminology is once again best for describing MAGA. There are certainly “smarks” who know and don’t care, yes. But there is surely also plenty of “marks”, who believes it is reality. Remember how stupid the average person is.

Wikipedia says:

Vibe coding involves accepting AI-generated code without reviewing it,

If you are using LLMs to write e.g. small components, then you are typically understanding the structure of the program, and reviewing it.