Old and new apps, via modern coding agents
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Old and new apps, via modern coding agents
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#2Terry Tao using coding agents to build apps means we're one step away from a Fields Medalist asking an LLM why his Docker container won't start, just like the rest of us.
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#4Nice balanced perspective there at the end:
"as such [LLM-coded interactive] supplements are not mission-critical to the core of the paper, I again feel that the downside risk of using guided interaction with LLM agents to generate such visualizations is acceptable."
It's a tool. Good for some things but not others and generally not to be trusted.
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#6The more Terry talks about AI, the more I'm starting to feel like Terry may have some undisclosed conflicts of interest.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mathematics/comments/1tryyw7/terenc...
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#7The more Terry talks about AI, the more I'm starting to feel like Terry may have some undisclosed conflicts of interest. https://www.reddit.com/r/mathematics/comments/1tryyw7/terenc...
Or he just finds it an incredible time-saving tool to help him do more maths.
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#8The article's awkward opening statement proves it wasn't written by AI.
I have been interested in machine-assisted ways to do and teach mathematics from as far back as 1999, when I started coding several applets in Java 1.0, both for my complex analysis and linear algebra courses, to visualize various mathematical objects I was interested in (such as honeycombs or Besicovitch sets).
Re: Old and new apps, via modern coding agents
#9The more Terry talks about AI, the more I'm starting to feel like Terry may have some undisclosed conflicts of interest. https://www.reddit.com/r/mathematics/comments/1tryyw7/terenc...
Or he just finds it an incredible time-saving tool to help him do more maths.
The well-known shadowy bias and conflict of interest of "I just enjoy experimenting with this new thing".
Re: Old and new apps, via modern coding agents
#10The more Terry talks about AI, the more I'm starting to feel like Terry may have some undisclosed conflicts of interest. https://www.reddit.com/r/mathematics/comments/1tryyw7/terenc...
When it comes to coding, non-programmers do not have to be in a defensive position worried that their job is under risk, instead they just see a great tool that saves them time, especially doing boring coding like dashboards, visualizations, interactive web-pages, or doing experiments that they otherwise would not have time for.