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AI Is Not a Dev

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Re: AI Is Not a Dev

#21
Most of my personal beef with AI comes from the way that it's being framed as an end-all tool for everything, despite the fact that it really can only do a small subset of things right now. It's horrid at math, it's wrong about basic information given to it; I've had it give me code that just used a library that doesn't exist (granted, it only did this once).

It's a very new, shiny hammer, but a hammer isn't going to be able to carve a hole into wood. I look forward to it being regulated and finding a real, approachable niche for it to work into.

Re: AI Is Not a Dev

#22
post #20

It's a new hammer but one that is improving at an exponential pace and is developing capabilities to use itself with increasing reliability It's easy to look at AI and draw a simple analogy to existing tools, because in most cases it is used as a tool, but the properties of intelligence and its ability to make things in the world is very unique and not comparable to any other tool. All tools are useful because they r…

> one that is improving at an exponential rate I don't know what AI you've been looking at but GPT-5 is not twice as good as GPT-4 which wasn't twice as good as GPT-3

I'm referring to the long-horizon task benchmark which has been exponential since GPT-2

https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-com...

Re: AI Is Not a Dev

#23

It's a new hammer but one that is improving at an exponential pace and is developing capabilities to use itself with increasing reliability It's easy to look at AI and draw a simple analogy to existing tools, because in most cases it is used as a tool, but the properties of intelligence and its ability to make things in the world is very unique and not comparable to any other tool. All tools are useful because they r…

As long as you're not going too far down the "the hammer will start using itself" path. Recursive feedback loops and fast pace of improvements are priced in.

They're not priced in inasmuch as many people consider it fundamentally impossible for AGI to be reached
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