Right the guy who failed to catchy the problem in the generated code, will be fine.

I’m not going to make another person suffer through a relationship with me. I’m horrrible and very difficult to be with!

No, I don’t step on things with you… Zing!

Sure, these would hurt to step on, but I don’t think that’s an emergency.

This is about the extinction of hand coded programming as we know it. You know how very few people know assembly, and every so often a COBOL expert has to be found to update a bank’s database so they can overhaul their systems?

What if all of programming becomes like that only worse. With new generations of programmers not actually knowing how to program. A massive decline in numbers and competence… Programmers that only “program” by talking to LLMs.

Ever seen an episode of Star Trek where a computer is in charge of everything, and society crumbles when it breaks down?

I think we might hit a plateau in a generation or two. The point at which we can generate more and more LLMs but don’t know how to make them any better. Let alone reprogram unrelated systems like medical scanners, or air traffic safety systems, or mapping systems.

“It’s okay we’ll have the LLMs improve the LLMs”… For the rest of eternity.

Tell me then, was the problem solved, the work done by the LLM?

Was it considered good enough for a mainbranch?

Or was it faulty/risky and require highly trained experts to catch? Then flagged, and only put into an experimental branch?

How many ex-Oracle memory experts do you think are available for this work, in which even Linus didn’t catch the race condition?

“Hey guys, nothing to see here if we have enough high level engineers fixing everything”.

Nah, these are the right sizes. The middle of the country is mostly unpopulated desert (and then Alice Springs). If you mark deserts off as their own states, the snakes and dingos refuse to pay for road maintenance and that’s how you get Mad Max.

Or rather, LLMs helped create bad code, and so didn’t do a significant peice of work - or did it so poorly it was dangerous to rely on for an Operating system:

Race conditions in programming occur when multiple processes or threads attempt to modify and access shared data simultaneously, leading to unpredictable and unintended outcomes. They can result in data corruption, program failures, and other unexpected behaviors if not properly managed with synchronization techniques.

The work isn’t done if it’s introducing risky/bad code (especially at the level of an operating system). That’s like saying “LLMs cure cancer by cutting patients into quarters, human reviewers stop it”

Then someone claiming “the real story here is that LLMs cured cancer”.

Was cancer actually cured? The article doesn’t say the problem was fixed.

Someone promoted something of the task. Someone had the safeties off. Someone gave an instruction that was interpreted as requesting this.

People ratting out weed dealers? I care not for them.

Apparently they’ve spent 10 trillion in commitments that soan to 2032… And have to get AI earning to 3 trillion a year to avoid a crash.

…and there’s 8 billion people on earth. So I assume they’re hoping for some lucrative corporate/government contracts and bailouts.

What’s the suggestion, that people should want to put their passion and effort into finding a new boss and set of restrictions on their time just to afford rent/food?

Face it, society is a bad deal. Sure it’s better than nothing or a poorer country. But people shouldn’t have to be stoked or going through burnout just to find a job.

AI job applications are an inevitable time saver for the poor and overwhelmed.

People should keep making it look like he took the bait and is angry about it. If everyone did this sort of thing to annoy him (or make him seem so) some more cracks might appear. More brain damage.

This is queer coated.

[Riffing on the term queer coded]

“Computers that are just for games, that you can’t do anything else on… And we say what games, and also for lots of them you have to keep paying us to play them… And you can’t have any physical ownership of them anymore”.

You did this? Every stock broker and intelligence agency also does their version of this.

Human nature.

By the way, this also means if you could download a mind to a computer - it would slowly lose it’s humanity as it lived longer and longer interfacing with computer systems rather than human systems/organs/experiencs.

Eventually that “uploaded human” would become a Clankr, and stop understanding human life, the will to survive/think. Eventually it would just compute (not think/care or have flaws).

Many sci-fi stories are based on the man-to-technology-to-cold-rational-evil pipeline… Less have gone in the other direction, even though it often produces very popular characters: Spock, Data, the Terminator, Pinnoccio.

“Intelligence”, as a word has always been ill defined. What’s it mean? It’s mostly been used to create prejudices via standardized tests, the bell curve, and IQ tests.

I don’t believe it’s “intelligent” as we don’t really know how to define that. But I do think it’s really really really good at writing reasonable seeming statements in various languages using probability.

Coding and programming, are just languages. So it will likely be able to get pretty damn good at it, just as it has with the English language.

I think with LLM accurate regurgitation of facts, is the colary to good code.

But I don’t believe that means it “thinks” (which requires introspection, and an internal experience). It does multi-agent computing, and this might even simulate some aspects of thinking… But it’s not thinking. It’s computing.

It won’t be able to do any more than that, until it consistently gets data from having a body (and something like glial thought-interaction/organs/flaws/survival).

That whole “dot com” thing, or having a “website” and “email” eventually popped and went away didn’t it?

Work Related Pavlovian Trauma.