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fdsajfkldsfklds

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    Comment #48923863

    State ownership is just a proxy for public ownership.

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    Comment #48405479

    Strictly speaking, it's modifying itself. Although it would be an interesting challenge - can an llm create a new llm from scratch?

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    Comment #48404141

    Alternative interpretation of the facts - "our slop generator has become buried in slop - could we all just take a breather for a moment?"

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    Comment #48240960

    Right, and that's why Mel was a true programmer! Seriously though, that's an overly-pedantic definition of a compiler. Broadly speaking, languages compile in a direction of decreas…

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    Comment #48240758

    I am looking forward to the first release tomorrow though!

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    Comment #48240539

    Engineering decisions and the resulting output. We've known for decades that machine-translated code is garbage, and should only be done as a last resort.

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    Comment #48240424

    A key element of engineering is projecting a current trajectory. Given that, it absolutely makes sense to avoid tools that give you a bad feeling. The easiest time to move away fro…

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    Comment #48240192

    Or just gently dent the edge of the metal lid, enough to break the seal, and it'll open easily.

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    Comment #48184209

    And a lot of oil has been well and truly stopped!

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    Comment #48141681

    This is effectively a very expensive and resource-intensive machine translation. As such, there is no increase in consistency or quality of output.

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    Comment #48139113

    The irony being that machine-translation of code language also dates from the 1970's.

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    Comment #47968909

    It seems to suffer from an un-necessary amount of panoramic distortion, unless that is supposed to be part of the charm.

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    Comment #47954345

    If your job can't easily be done by AI, then you can pick it up and get "up to speed" any time you like. If it can be done by AI, then you have no hope of competing with the quanti…

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    Comment #47954209

    >those who work on things where LLM's are capable of a substantial amount of the tasks will be left behind It sounds more like there is no chance that most of those people will sta…

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    Comment #47883234

    Never, ever type "npm -i". This advice has served me well for many years.

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    Comment #47882429

    The Anti-Singlarity! It's coming for us all.