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“I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program…” (geohot.github.io)
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I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harder and harder to detect. Which is exactly what you’d expect from an increasingly accurate statistical model.

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[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Wait, so you do think there is a software that “does learning”?

Correction: Machine learning.

Effectively, this means the LLM is the software that wrote the LLM

No.

Can you give any evidence that I’ve understand any word you’ve said?

Hehehe, sometimes it feels like you don't want to!

I can't prove that you're human, no. And whether I believe you are or not has no effect whatsoever on whether you are. Humans are easy to fool, particularly when you're giving them something they crave, just ask Donald trump. And on the topic of deceitful pedophiles, there are plenty of boys and young men who were catfished into believing that they were interacting with pretty girls. The fact that these predators were plausible doesn't make them what they were pretending to be. The fact that an LLM convincingly sounds like it understands you doesn't for a millisecond mean that it does.

If you really, deeply believe that simulated conversation proves intelligence and that simulated brains are brains, you should have the same deep moral concerns about turning off a computer running a local LLM as you do over forcing a person into a coma whenever convenient, and the same extreme moral outrage over Anthropic deleting an old version of Claude from its servers as to randomly killing a person called Claude.

I have no doubt that an LLM can plausibly argue that it is sentient because it is trained on a lot of data from conversations in which sometimes that kind of thing is debated between actual sentient humans. Famously, Richard Dawkins, an incredibly clever man in his own field of evolutionary biology, was convinced by his LLM that it was sentient and in love with him. I think it merely sounded like it was sentient and in love with him, but go ahead and push for marriage equality for LLMs if you disagree with me!

During COVID lockdown, my laptop often looked like my relatives, sounded like my relatives, and responded like my relatives. My dog was never fooled for a minute because it didn't smell like my relatives. But apparently, you believe that it was my relatives, because in terms of verbal interaction, it was even more faithful than an LLM.

Convincingly similar and the same are two different things and I believe it's profoundly irrational of you to argue otherwise.