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Imagine a multi-modal model with 1000's of tokens per second. Realtime inference for a host of applications. This is a BIG deal and will change the landscape in unfathomable ways. …

It's worse, HN seems to suffer from a higher than average pedant count. The analogies are missed completely!

I agree the bottom line ROI largely isn't there and won't be in the future either. The upside for companies is not the bottom line but the potential savings from hiring fewer devel…

Economics drives behaviour more than people think. Your employer cares about results. It's 'YOLO, LGTM' all the way down now.

A more reasonable extension is: machine code > assembly language > high-level programming language > what ever works for business i.e. prompts/ai/LLM If it works for business then …

I couldn't find the prompts you used. They are the source code now so would be interesting to view them.

> Why must this result in less joy. The parent's point is better articulated as: programming COUPLED with being paid do it is what is now less enjoyable due to AI. You are free to …

Anecdotally at least I've seen devs who have checked out by completely flipping careers or doing something zany such as living off grid. Unfortunately like most things your options…

I'm not saying it's economics in a vacuum. I'm suggesting that it is LARGELY economics. > There'd be middling salaries for developers across the country, and probably actually the …

It is not always the case that there is a way to adapt to a certain thing. How can the immense investment in AI pay off? AI is doing away with human intellectual input. There are 2…

For many people coding isn't just a means to an end but a pleasure in itself. Coding by hand, the raw intellectual challenge to my mind has been one of the greatest 'jobs' you coul…

I would guess that most HN users are employees. By far the largest dictator of your day to day life is your employer. Sentences such as this one from the article "Hopefully, many d…

Precisely my point. Say for examples planes, trains or automobiles, humans may make way more errors than a computer does but you can bet your bottom dollar the threshold for allowi…

Because Claude isn't a human the perception of it is different. Humans can fly planes, computers too can fly planes. I'm not going to give the same leeway to a 'computer' flying a …

LLM's are the primary cause of SO decline. Largely due to LLM's having scraped SO (and everything else available on the WWW). It's the reason there is a decline in traffic across t…

Exactly this! LLM's are replacing your 'brain' i.e. the deepest most amazing part of you. The potential value of this to business is astronomical! No there won't be an explosion of…

I think you missed my point I'm not denying the code does not produce a function of effect. The code however is uninteresting because almost anyone can also generate it. I'm intere…

Attempting to illustrate why your analogy is flawed and explain myself a little better I would add that there are quantitive things and qualitative things. If the object was to rem…

> Who says you need a boss or other human coworkers? I didn't. However most people on here and around the world are employed I am merely pointing out that your employer dictates so…

That's such a naive take, the joy of helping the customer ha! That's a situation your employer sets up for you! Try reading your sentence above and swapping in 'EMPLOYEE': 'These L…

If it's code built by an LLM it's almost inherently uninteresting in that 'anyone' can also generate the same slop. Beyond the initial novelty the 'achievement' really doesn't stre…

What is 'reasoning' or IQ or more importantly consciousness are very difficult open questions in science. An approach that might shed some light is instead to define what conscious…

Written by AI and not nearly as impressive at all. Such a shame because I thought someone had spent real time and effort producing this. The output is commoditised and now neither …

You are correct, it was flagged almost immediately and I'm unsure why (though my conspiratorial brain kicked in attempting to turn up answers). In any case and perhaps as a consequ…