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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

For each time saved, you're having that one kink that will slow you down by a fuck ton, something that AI just can't get right, something that takes ai 5 hours to fix but would've taken you 10-20 to write from scratch

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I have an LLM usage mandate in my performance review now. I can’t trust it to do anything important, so I’ll get it to do incredibly noddy things like deleting a clause (that I literally always have highlighted) or generate documentation that’s more long-winded than just reading the code and then go to the bathroom while it happens.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Anyone who has had to unfuck someone else’s work knows it would have been faster to do the work correctly from scratch the first time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@[email protected] who is your illustrator? These are consistently great.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

these are stock images! Which are surprisingly cheap. By Valeriy Kachaev, who puts stuff up as Studiostoks on a pile of stock image sites. His pics are bizarre and keep being the perfect thing.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

@dgerard I normally consider myself a 10x developer. With the 10x speedup of AI I now consider myself a 100x developer. I can replace an entire small business worth of developers with just myself and my LLM bot assistance. Just pay me $100 million up front no strings and I'll prove it to you! /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mark Zuckerberg would like to know your location

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have the deal of a lifetime for you.

I represent a group of investors in possession of a truly unique NFT that has been recently valued at over $100M. We will invest this NFT in your 100x business - in return you transfer us the difference between the $100M investment and the excess value of the NFT. Standard rich people stuff, don’t worry about it.

Let me know when you’re ready to unlock your 100x potential and I’ll make our investment available via a suitable escrow service.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

ahahaha holy shit. I knew METR smelled a bit like AI doomsday cultists and took money from OpenPhil, but those "open source" projects and engineers? One of them was LessWrong.

Here's a LW site dev whining about the study, he was in it and i think he thinks it was unfair to AI

I think if people are citing in another 3 months time, they'll be making a mistake

dude $NEXT_VERSION will be so cool

so anyway, this study has gone mainstream! It was on CNBC! I urge you not to watch that unless you have a yearning need to know what the normies are hearing about this shit. In summary, they are hearing that AI coding isn't all that actually and may not do what the captains of industry want.

around 2:30 the two talking heads ran out of information and just started incorrecting each other on the fabulous AI future, like the worst work lunchroom debate ever but it's about AI becoming superhuman

the key takeaway for the non techie businessmen and investors who take CNBC seriously ever: the bubble starts not going so great

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, METR was the group that made the infamous AI IS DOUBLING EVERY 4-7 MONTHS GRAPH where the measurement was 50% success at SWE tasks based on the time it took a human to complete it. Extremely arbitrary success rate, very suspicious imo. They are fanatics trying to pinpoint when the robo god recursive self improvement loop starts.

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