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Re: I think I need to go lie down

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Such recent demos show both how impressively ML/AI has advanced recently, and how unimpressively repetitive and unoriginal tasks keep being reimplemented by millions of developers worldwide. Since most UI screens can be accurately described in one or two paragraphs, it's no wonder they can be represented in much detail in a relatively small embedding vector.

People used to write assembly language manually too, writing the most simple control structures over and over hand crafted for each case.

This is even more automation of drudgery and easy repetitive work.

Re: I think I need to go lie down

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m confused - what are you specifically having problems with? I’m not logged in and the site loaded fine on mobile and then again on desktop. The video played immediately, I didn’t see any ads. Are you hoping to be able to comment without an account? That’s usually not how things work. I’m guessing this is another case of Elon induced nerd grumpiness?

Not who you’re replying to but: Im on iOS using the HACK app and the built in safari web view wouldn’t play the videos, and same in chrome. So now I’ve given up. Also, if I clicked into the tweet (xeet?) in the web view and hit “open in system browser”, I just got an X “something went wrong” page. Also if I opened the first video that failed to play, closed it, and clicked the second video, the first would attempt to…

> Im on iOS using the HACK app and the built in safari web view wouldn’t play the videos, and same in chrome. So now I’ve given up.

I use HACK on iOS without any account and everything renders fine, the video plays with no issue for me.

Re: I think I need to go lie down

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Lets make ourselves redundant. At least I won't have to relearn JS every 2 weeks.

These little demos of toy UIs are cute but humans can still hold the context of a whole codebase in their heads. We're not quite at the level (yet) of feeding a whole codebase to an LLM and making it add features or make changes while understanding the big picture of the problem being solved, being consistent with the design principles and coding style of the overall existing codebase. And I'm not even talking about…

> We're not quite at the level (yet) of feeding a whole codebase to an LLM and making it add features or make changes while understanding the big picture of the problem being solved

We are one step away from that. All we need is a more advanced form of fine tuning.

Re: I think I need to go lie down

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I mean, cool, but surely if this is a technical feat it speaks more to the complexity of our tooling and platforms than it does the impressiveness of AI. What I'm trying to say is that all of this is pretty primitive if you built the right tooling to express those ideas trivially. Like even a 6 year old could create noughts and crosses if the paradigm they were using allowed them to express the game rules in a way that was natural to them. So yes, while I think this is cool, I don't get how it warrants the hype and hysteria. It makes me sad that this minor technical accomplishment seems impressive because the web is an unintuitive medium for expressing logic entangled with UI.

Re: I think I need to go lie down

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Can we please stop posting twitter links? It's a horror show of a website, especially if you don't have an account.

I’m confused - what are you specifically having problems with? I’m not logged in and the site loaded fine on mobile and then again on desktop. The video played immediately, I didn’t see any ads. Are you hoping to be able to comment without an account? That’s usually not how things work. I’m guessing this is another case of Elon induced nerd grumpiness?

Also when logged out on mobile I find that it just fails to load and you get an error with a try again, and that try again never works.
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