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See also https://awful.systems/post/7311930

This is why CCC being able to compile real C code at all is noteworthy. But it also explains why the output quality is far from what GCC produces. Building a compiler that parses C correctly is one thing. Building one that produces fast and efficient machine code is a completely different challenge.

Every single one of these failures is waved away because supposedly it's impressive that the AI can do this at all. Do they not realize the obvious problem with this argument? The AI has been trained on all the source code that Anthropic could get their grubby hands on! This includes GCC and clang and everything remotely resembling a C compiler! If I took every C compiler in existence, shoved them in a blender, and spent $20k on electricity blending them until the resulting slurry passed my test cases, should I be surprised or impressed that I got a shitty C compiler? If an actual person wrote this code, they would be justifiably mocked (or they're a student trying to learn by doing, and LLMs do not learn by doing). But AI gets a free pass because it's impressive that the slop can come in larger quantities now, I guess. These Models Will Improve. These Issues Will Get Fixed.

E: If they all hate programming so much, perhaps a change of job is in question, sure might not pay as much, but it might make them happier.

Surely at least a few of them have worked up enough seed capital to try their hand at used-car dealerships. I can attest that the juicier markets just outside the Bay Area are fairly saturated, but maybe they could push into lesser-served locales like Lost Hills or Weaverville.

my current favorite trick for reducing "cognitive debt" (h/t @simonw ) is to ask the LLM to write two versions of the plan:

1. The version for it (highly technical and detailed)
2. The version for me (an entertaining essay designed to build my intuition)

I don't know about them, but I would be offended if I was planning something with a collaborator, and they decide to give me a dumbed down, entertaining, children's storybook version of their plan while keeping all the technical details to themselves.

Also, this is absolutely not what "cognitive debt" means. I've heard technical debt refers to bad design decisions in software where one does something cheap and easy now but has to constantly deal with the maintenance headaches afterwards. But the very concept of working through technical details? That's what we call "thinking". These people want to avoid the burden of thinking.

@Soyweiser @BlueMonday1984 I like* how the structure of the boat changes from moment to moment. I like* how the radio dishes just beam from some random place between the transmitter and the dish. I like* that the original person who was waiting for a live stream doesn't get it (because it goes to a different group of people) and is just eating popcorn watching the mess unfold. I like* how the "audience" have their backs to the "live stream" screen and are excited to be looking away from it.

I think I understand it. Think of an alcoholic that's trying every sort of miracle hangover "cure" instead of drinking less.

@Soyweiser @BlueMonday1984 tag yourself I'm emailing HTML

This reminds me of when Steve Jobs would introduce every new Mac release by talking about how fast it could render in Photoshop. I wonder how he would do in our brave new era of completely ass-pulling your own bespoke benchmark frameworks.

Goertzel discusses with Epstein future scenario for "an AGI economy":

"for the AGI parasite to overcome to regular-human-economy host (so it can grow to be more than a parasite and eventually gain its own superhuman autonomy) it first needs to suck off the resources of the host"

The Rationalists!

That slopped-out "diagram" plagiarised Vincent Driessen’s “A successful Git branching model”, BTW.

Timn

yes, I certainly do know how to handle software development over Timn

it is actually kinda incredible that this shit has invented a way to be terrible that we can't actually easily riff off by what's expressable in unicode. an unholy clusterfuck of what would otherwise be be joked about as keming (but isn't because it's straight-up an artefact of the process used to encode visual data from source data, badly), a mindless automaton outputting garbage, and then also the shitty model

and people keep telling me this shit is good

wait, was this brain-rotting cognitive hazard posted at the linked page on microsoft dot com documentation? if so they have already removed it

edit: archive caught it

Two thoughts:

That this is not just some random AI generated graphic, but from official Microsoft tutorial is unpleasantly unsurprising.

I think the tinm (timn ?) axis goes the wrong way.

It's morgin' time

Microsoft is really putting the "git" in GitHub thanks to copilot.

Mighty Morgin' Power-Sloppers

You have to wonder about that Tim traveler; Merlin?

@scruiser @BlueMonday1984 funny how they mock left wingers for «that wasn't real communism» and then come up with the same excuses for liberal democracies and capitalism whenever one points out all the shit that came out of that. It's really ALWAYS projection with them, isn't it?

"even safer" in this case means some combination of two things:

1. The new organization is more ideologically aligned with the transhumanist doom cult that apparently managed to eat the brains of the people with money to burn.

2. The new organization, largely as a result of this, is capable of sinking an unending amount of capital into buying compute time and Nvidia chips but due to their commitments to safety is even less inclined to actually deliver anything.

yawn, i diagnose that LWer with weeb. this is something happening across entire industrialized world, causes being high performance mechanization of agriculture, old people being stubborn in regards to moving, lack of specialized work in countryside and couple of other factors. germany has patched their hospice staff shortage (not sure how effectively) with migrants, but japanese are way too racist for that. same thing happens in moldova, but you never hear sob stories about retired moldovans because they're broke and nobody cares, while moldovan govt can't really do much about it (because broke) to degree that it has not just economic and demographic, but even strategic effects. whole lotta drs strangelove in there

@o7___o7 @techtakes It was Arduino who emitted the llm generated circuit but I was tired and conflated two companies with similar names (whose products I don't use) before going to bed. Now they're trying to throw a flame war. Pay no attention.

Limor Fried and I had a class together at MIT in 2001. This has no bearing on the present circumstances and offers me no real insight (anything I could say about our extremely limited interactions would amount to confirmation bias). It's just the odd little factoid that comes to mind whenever adafruit Does Something Online.