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>just throw the code away and rebuild it What about all the undocumented "adjustments" ("bug fixes" in a professional context) that were made to make it actually useful?
Well first it could write a spec, THEN throw it away :) Like you are supposed to do with a prototype.
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In what world would this be a future burden? It's just a throwaway fun project lol
I think the fear is that a lot of this stuff will end up being load bearing. A lot more folks now know enough to be dangerous but not enough to know what to throw away.
Yesterday my 8yo prompted (using voice recognition) Claude to make a game where it would play her a song (say Twinkle) and she had to play it back and get scored. The UI was a nice piano with visual feedback. The laptop key served as the keys until I prompted for midi support so she could use the electric piano. The whole thing took about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, one peak at the code and you can already see the state s…
In what world would this be a future burden? It's just a throwaway fun project lol
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And the models of the future will surely be better than they are today. This stuff is still a very long way from maturity. Sometimes it seems like they're moving very slowly. That makes sense: It's easy to get used to how they work today and it is also easy to forget how much worse they were last year. When we look back and realize that just 4 years ago these tools didn't really exist at all, it becomes clear that th…
> And the models of the future will surely be better than they are today. This stuff is still a very long way from maturity. Since this is Claude, the models of the future might be more expensive, or more locked down, or might decide your 8yo is actually trying to build a cleverly disguised bomb so her request gets silently downgraded to a dumber model, etc.
Yesterday my 8yo prompted (using voice recognition) Claude to make a game where it would play her a song (say Twinkle) and she had to play it back and get scored. The UI was a nice piano with visual feedback. The laptop key served as the keys until I prompted for midi support so she could use the electric piano. The whole thing took about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, one peak at the code and you can already see the state s…
In what world would this be a future burden? It's just a throwaway fun project lol
I now use my own video compositor to edit videos instead of after effects https://lowkeyviewer.com/studio/
use my own ecommerce and landing page builder for my businesses. that I use in production.
Cancelled by Strength App, Zwift for indoor bike trainer, and strava for running apps and built my own app that brings all 3 together and works better. https://coachsamsyn.com/
Among about 100 little smaller tools.
All of these are released and work. Some of them have other customers. One of them has 1000s.
There is absolutely no way I could have done all of this without AI. I don't really consider most of it too be slop, ive been an engineer for 20 years. I care a lot about the details and the underlying properties of the system. I had shipped my side projects years before AI that had real users so I have a good idea of what it takes to ship something end to end that people can actually use. It's mostly about the details and ease of use and the last 20% is the hardest. Some of us know that from our day jobs but it is different when you have to it all yourself and be responsible for every choice.
But then ... posting to HN that you've used an LLM to solve a problem is OK?
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Guess you depend on how you measure. As "released product to the public" then probably yes. Cumulative training hours spent actually creating and adjusting the weights during training? Probably no.
Maybe, I do not know how the number of neurons in a child's brain and the connections compare to Claude and its training but I would think it is comparable. Also, while a child might sleep the brain does not just switch off, there is still stuff going on that adds to the child's development. I am, here, not counting time for separate instances of Claude (so 10 instances running for a year is not 10 years). So, I thin…
A child doesn't get centuries of curated human knowledge and public works as its starting point
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For most people talking to Claude is a much better experience than doing a Google search.
Google already has AI overviews which I use instead of polluting my ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini chats.
The upside is that telling said users to double-check the sources usually results in them realizing the AI overview was wrong, but it's still a waste of everyone's time.
The 2021-era of of just "Not finding the results" was maybe a better outcome.
That's because people like me were doing that and writing about it 20+ years ago. Everything from Claude comes from human minds.
Yes, technology at step N is built from technology at step N-1. Always has been.
Of course current technology is a step forward from yesterday’s. Of course what we have today is built on what came before it.
Things don’t exist in a vacuum, anyone over the age of 12 should have this figured out by now.