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In effect the source code is being copied by the LLM. This is what it's designed to do. LLMs are a lossy statistical compression of their training data. If you give it a prompt tel…

Whatever LLM they used copied the source code. It took their prompt and filled in the blanks of the spec by copying from the closest matching open source project. This is just what…

Not popping doesn't seem possible to me, since all investment has been directed towards it, massive construction projects have been started, etc... The revenue needed to keep OpenA…

Yes a test showing an LLM can reproduce an app in its training data and not an equivalent complexity app that is not in its training data is equivalent to proving the statement I m…

I have neural net applications I programmed entirely myself from 16 years ago and all I see from you are some python scripts so I guess I win this stupid game I wasn't even trying …

I wasted 2k on a color e-ink monitor that ended up being pretty much unusable. Reviews said as much but the risk was worth it to me for the chance to spend my days looking at somet…

First I never made any claims about myself or appealed to my authority, that was you. I still don't see any evidence of any technical expertise in ML or in programming anything mor…

I don't use these tools, but wouldn't it be better to use them only after you do a manual review to see if they find anything you missed? Otherwise I could see reviewers getting fa…

You could just test it for yourself if you're actually interested in finding out (assuming you are a decent programmer, but your bio suggests you have no technical expertise in the…

It has. LLMs being able to one-shot any higher-order complexity is entirely dependent on it already being in the training data.

You trust those?

I don't really use LLMs myself, but if someone wants to have any kind of software business then having the models trained on their products isn't ideal.

Who are you quoting?

Do you think that everyone using it and their employers are aware that they are giving their competition the ability to copy straight from their codebase when they ask it to replic…

It's not theft in the same way a con artist convinces you to give him all your money. The people using it or their employers just don't realize any competitor will be able to ask t…

One of the funniest things is how hard it was to get approval for a $100 software license but now people are being encouraged to burn thousands on tokens.

> "In its IPO filing, the company had said Cursor's access to developers' data, including coding requests and design decisions, could help improve its AI models such as Grok." They…

> "to practice what happens if a much more serious event occurs" A pair of bolt cutters should do.

Uploading your IP to the biggest IP thieves in human history seems bad idk. 2. Eventually we'll get to where local models that don't have sycophancy and slot-machine mechanics trai…

This seems to be a good middle ground then. It allows for a way to prevent political projects getting grants under the guise of "scientific research", at least when they directly o…

Instead of programming something yourself now you'll be forced to program through the interface of someone that doesn't speak English putting what you say into an LLM. We've peaked…

Seems more like a materialist religious project to me.

> but there’s no denying that the barrier to entry has fallen significantly. The barrier to entry to make slop is lower, but it's gotten much higher for developing the skill of pro…

> Clearly the theory that LLM's can't "extrapolate" is woefully incomplete at best (and most likely simply incorrect). What example is there where an LLM has extrapolated? All I've…

Newton did it at 23 and there would have been very few people with mathematical training. The LLM would be trained on the entirety of recorded human knowledge and mathematics up to…