now that's a name I haven't seen in years, hi mpoon!
also this is slick as hell
Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts
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#12now that's a name I haven't seen in years, hi mpoon! also this is slick as hell
Oh hi fire
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#13Eventually you get to a point where the AI simply doesn’t know how to do something correctly. It can’t fix a certain bug, or implement a feature correctly. At this point you are left trying to do more and more prompt crafting… or you can just fix the problem yourself. If you can’t do it yourself, you’re screwed.
I wonder if the future will just be software hobbled together with shitty AI code that no one understands, with long loops and deep call stacks and abstractions on top of abstractions, while tech priests take a prompt and pray approach to eventually building something that does kind of what they want.
Or to hell with priests! Build some temple where users themselves can come leave prompts for the general AI to hear and maybe put out a fix for some app running on their tablets devices.
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#14Eventually you get to a point where the AI simply doesn’t know how to do something correctly. It can’t fix a certain bug, or implement a feature correctly. At this point you are left trying to do more and more prompt crafting… or you can just fix the problem yourself. If you can’t do it yourself, you’re screwed. I wonder if the future will just be software hobbled together with shitty AI code that no one understands,…
I don't see programming going away for this reason. Think about it, if you have to carefully describe what you want to do to an AI - you are just writing a program. Only a program is deterministic and will do what you tell it to, whereas an AI may or may not.
The future that I see, coding and AI are divided into two camps. The one is what we would call "script kiddies" today - people who don't understand how to write software, but know enough to ask the right questions and bodge what they get together into something that mostly works. The other camp would be programmers who are similar to programmers today, but use AI to write boilerplate for them, as well as replace Stack Overflow.
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#15Eventually you get to a point where the AI simply doesn’t know how to do something correctly. It can’t fix a certain bug, or implement a feature correctly. At this point you are left trying to do more and more prompt crafting… or you can just fix the problem yourself. If you can’t do it yourself, you’re screwed. I wonder if the future will just be software hobbled together with shitty AI code that no one understands,…
> I wonder if the future will just be software hobbled together with shitty AI code that no one understands, with long loops and deep call stacks and abstractions on top of abstractions
There's plenty of software out there that fits this description if you just remove "AI" from the statement. There's nothing new about bad codebases. Now it just costs pennies and is written in seconds instead of thousands paid to an outsourcing middleman firm that takes weeks or months to turn it around.
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#16How much text can you feed GPT-4? Our codebase is 1 million lines of code. Can we feed the documentation to it? What are the limits? Is it possible to train it on our data without doing prompt engineering? How? Otherwise are we supposed to use embeddings? Can someone explain how these all work and the tradeoffs?
I'm waiting on my GPT-4 API access so I can use gpt-4-32k which maybe can soak up 10k LOC? Clearly this will break eventually, but I am playing around with some ideas to extend how much context I can give it. One is to do something like base64 encode file contents. I've seen some early success that GPT-4 knows how to decode it, so that'll allow me to stuff more characters into it. I'm also hoping that with the use of…
> GPT-4 knows how to decode it
I wonder if you could teach it to understand a binary encoding using the raw bytestream, feed it compressed text, and just tell it to decompress it first.
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#17Eventually you get to a point where the AI simply doesn’t know how to do something correctly. It can’t fix a certain bug, or implement a feature correctly. At this point you are left trying to do more and more prompt crafting… or you can just fix the problem yourself. If you can’t do it yourself, you’re screwed. I wonder if the future will just be software hobbled together with shitty AI code that no one understands,…
> I wonder if the future will just be software hobbled together with shitty AI code that no one understands, with long loops and deep call stacks and abstractions on top of abstractions There's plenty of software out there that fits this description if you just remove "AI" from the statement. There's nothing new about bad codebases. Now it just costs pennies and is written in seconds instead of thousands paid to an o…
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#18Fully automated junior swe but on hyper speed. Natural next step
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#20Eventually you get to a point where the AI simply doesn’t know how to do something correctly. It can’t fix a certain bug, or implement a feature correctly. At this point you are left trying to do more and more prompt crafting… or you can just fix the problem yourself. If you can’t do it yourself, you’re screwed. I wonder if the future will just be software hobbled together with shitty AI code that no one understands,…
I don't see programming going away for this reason. Think about it, if you have to carefully describe what you want to do to an AI - you are just writing a program. Only a program is deterministic and will do what you tell it to, whereas an AI may or may not. The future that I see, coding and AI are divided into two camps. The one is what we would call "script kiddies" today - people who don't understand how to write…
Between GPT-3 and GPT-4 the precision required for prompts was decreased significantly. In theory it should reach the point where a project manager type person would be able to describe what is needed and it would simply do it, the main thing missing from attaining that is that GPT-4 basically never responds to questions with requests for clarification, otherwise, a whole team of developers could be reduced to just one proofreader.