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The issue is that the only models that could be trusted to work autonomously cost more than a human employee
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If at the end Shakespeare-level literature is produced, does it matter whether we arrived there by random keystrokes?
The problem is the infinite other literature produced along the way. It doesn't work to throw more monkeys at the problem of verification, and checking for matches against existing Shakespeare plays is cheating.
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It's hard not read such quotes and immediately think of the Infinite Monkey Theorem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
If at the end Shakespeare-level literature is produced, does it matter whether we arrived there by random keystrokes?
Monkeys have been reading Shakespeare all their lives (training). Effectively, this is LLM uncompression. Hence, "in Rust, from nothing but its documentation" -- not entirely true.
>The browser swarm from earlier this year peaked at roughly 1,000 commits per hour on Git. The new system peaks at around 1,000 commits per second. >To facilitate this rate of activity, we built a new version control system (VCS) from scratch. Throughput was not the only reason to own this layer. Every change in the system passes through the VCS, so it is where collisions first become visible, and several of the coor…
I made a VCS for LLM assisted work, bootstrapping it on its own code as it was developed. In fact, if it did not really work, it would not even exist! In my experience, keeping track of things and evaluating them was the bottleneck and I focused on that https://replicated.live/blog/worktree Effectively, the question is "how to leverage human evaluation and feedback".
The Cursor people concluded their last post with "taste, judgement, and direction came from humans". Sounded surprisingly sane after "don't compile it, commit it faster" some paragraphs earlier.
Tinfoil hat: what if the prices are artificially inflated deliberately to price out casual users being able to field large swarms of frontier model agents because it could be just too dangerous.
The issue is that the only models that could be trusted to work autonomously cost more than a human employee
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Even if no Rust code for it was seen during training, an LLM can trivially transpile SQLite's C codebase to Rust on the fly. For example, I just asked ChatGPT to write John Carmack's famous Fast Inverse Square Root algorithm in Erlang, without searching online or thinking, and it transpiled it immediately (while also extracting the knowledge in the same step). SQLite's semantics/code are stored in the middle layers o…
Then you would expect the implementation to be structured the same as SQLite, and having glanced at the result, it looks like at least some things aren't. For example, it seems to use an operator-tree executor rather than SQLite's bytecode interpreter.
>The browser swarm from earlier this year peaked at roughly 1,000 commits per hour on Git. The new system peaks at around 1,000 commits per second. >To facilitate this rate of activity, we built a new version control system (VCS) from scratch. Throughput was not the only reason to own this layer. Every change in the system passes through the VCS, so it is where collisions first become visible, and several of the coor…
I mean why even use VCS at that point?
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Yes and this can be proven because what Anthropic says and does is vastly different They say SaaS is dead and you can vibe code any SaaS using Opus and yet despite having Mythos with them they have to use JS terminal to run Claude Code. Why don't they just vibe code CC? Why doesn't Dario have a 100000 agent swarm to run entirety of Anthropic or at least software department?
They've said for some time that Claude Code is 90% LLM generated code.
So it's not a brag
They could just write in Rust directly can't they? If they do that then they're doing what they preach
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It's hard not read such quotes and immediately think of the Infinite Monkey Theorem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
If at the end Shakespeare-level literature is produced, does it matter whether we arrived there by random keystrokes?
But I’m glad someone else is running all these experiments so we can see who is right in their guess about the outcome.