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Re: Devin: AI Software Engineer

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machiaweliczny wrote: post #273
burningChrome wrote: post #180

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I often ask a similar question of what happens when we, as humans, have offloaded everything to technology, to AI to Robots? What kind of a society will we have then? When you no longer have to think about how to do something, or how to build or repair something, or create something original from your imagination. I shudder to think the direction this is all leading to.

Raising kids, social stuff, exercise, travel, any leisure stuff like racing, horse ridding, acrobatics. entertainment, cooking, art, gardening etc. Just check what rich girls do and you will see they aren’t bored though they don’t have to work.

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Re: Devin: AI Software Engineer

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Post by kjqgqkejbfefn »

CipherThrowaway wrote: post #204
xcv123 wrote: post #173

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> They produce generic, amateurish copy that reads like it's written by committee. If you were only using GPT 3.5 (free ChatGPT) then your opinion is irrelevant. With GPT-4 you could directly ask it: "rewrite your previous response so that it sounds less generic, less amateurish, and not written by a committee". I'm not even joking. Just provide enough information and tell it what to do. If you don't like the output…

Yes, I've used GPT-4. The writing sounds better, but it still sucks at writing. Most importantly, it feels like it sucks just as much as GPT-3.5 in some deeply important ways. If you use GPT-4 day-to-day, you've probably encountered this sense of a capability wall before. The point where additional prompting, tweaking, re-prompting simply doesn't seem to be yielding better results on the task, or it feels like the is…

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Re: Devin: AI Software Engineer

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Post by gardenhedge »

pushedx wrote: post #200

Scott Wu! I met Scott at a competitive programming event a few years back. He is one of a very small group of people (going back to 1989) to get a perfect raw score at the IoI, the olympiad for competitive programming. https://stats.ioinformatics.org/people/2686 Glad to see that he's putting his (unbelievable) talents to use. To give you a sense, at the event where I met him, he solved 6 problems equivalent to Leetco…

Sounds like he's talented. Isn't Devin "just" a AI wrapper tool? Devin's play is that it will be the first comprehensive option available but it will soon be eaten by OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and countless others.

Re: Devin: AI Software Engineer

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Post by gardenhedge »

dakiol wrote: post #225

Don't get it. If we have this amazing AI why don't we make good use of it? 90% of my job is not to write code (as a senior software engineer), is to: - deobfuscate complex requirements into well divided chunks - find gaps or holes in requirements so that I have to write the minimal amount of code - understand codebases so that the implementation fits nicely I don't need an "AI software engineer", I need an "AI people…

The problem is getting enough information on requirements to even break them down :)

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Post by jacob019 »

n4r9 wrote: post #281
meindnoch wrote: post #201

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But the real game changer will be GPT-6.

What really annoys me in all these discussions is how no one's tested what happens if they wait until 2050 and try GPT-19.

That's well after the AI meta consciousness understood that it was necessary to destroy all humans to save the planet. GPT-6 was the last of the GPT series.

Re: Devin: AI Software Engineer

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Post by PodgieTar »

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If anyone is practicing for their B1 Dutch exam, feel free to use this link to get the practice paper.

https://usacognition--serve-s3-files.modal.run/attachments/4...

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Post by thfuran »

n0sleep wrote: post #157
thfuran wrote: post #26

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>if we can redistribute the AI-generated surplus, this will still be a net-win for us all. We can't.

Correction: we won't.

I'm not saying it's against the laws of physics, just that it's not achievable. If people worked differently, we could allocate resources differently.

Re: Devin: AI Software Engineer

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Post by ramoz »

Bearish. These types of tools/agents-chaining will be irrelevant due to lackluster capability until AGI is achieved. At which point, the basis for creating these types of tools/agents will be defunct.
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