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Re: GPT is all you need for the back end

#33

Yes I could do that. I could indeed invoke something that requires god-knows how many tensor cores, vram, not to mention the power requirements of all that hardware, in order to power a simple CRUD App. Or, I could not do that, and instead have it done by a sub-100-lines python script, running on a battery powered Pi.

You don't actually think this is serious, do you?

CTOs and CEOs will think it is serious.

Re: GPT is all you need for the back end

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Even if this is not 100% serious, it is really starting to feel like the ship computer from star trek is not too far away.

The closer we seem to get the farther we actually are. We're far away from AGI, if we even can reach it with our current approaches, but the latest iterations of "AI" are really good at making people believe it'll be there in 2 years

Re: GPT is all you need for the back end

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Absolutely this. It's a solution looking for a problem. If the developer task is really so trivial why not just have a human write actual code? And even if it is actual code instead of a Rube Goldberg-esque restricted query service, I still don't think there's ever any time saved using AI for anything. Unless you also plan on assigning the code review to the AI, a human must be involved. To say that the reviews would…

Guys, this is a joke. Don't take it so seriously. Literally the first thing in the README is a meme.

You may not take it seriously, and I may not take it seriously, but it takes one person to read this seriously, convince another person to invest, and then hire a third person and tell them, "make it so", for the joke to no longer be a joke.

Re: GPT is all you need for the back end

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You don't actually think this is serious, do you?

I promise that even if this is a joke, people will see this and take it seriously, implement it and preach it seriously to other people. It's impossible to make jokes online if you don't want to have harmful effect on the world.

As evidenced in this very same thread. You can't make this up, can you?

Re: GPT is all you need for the back end

#37

Yes I could do that. I could indeed invoke something that requires god-knows how many tensor cores, vram, not to mention the power requirements of all that hardware, in order to power a simple CRUD App. Or, I could not do that, and instead have it done by a sub-100-lines python script, running on a battery powered Pi.

The underlying complexity isn’t relevant at all when considering such solution, if it makes otherwise business sense and is abstracted away.

Otherwise you could make the same argument about your 100 lines python script which invokes god knows how many complex objects and dicts when a simple C program (under 300 lines) could do the job.

(I know the original repo is a joke… for now)

Re: GPT is all you need for the back end

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Would be ridiculously inefficient, while also being nondeterministic and opaque. Impossible to debug, verify, or test anything, and thus would be unwise to use for almost any kind of important task. But maybe for a very forgiving task you can reduce developer hours. As soon as you need to start doing any kind of custom training of the model, then you are reintroducing all developer costs and then some, while the othe…

> Would be ridiculously inefficient, while also being nondeterministic and opaque. Impossible to debug, verify, or test anything, and thus would be unwise to use for almost any kind of important task. Not to defend a joke app, but I have worked in “serious” production systems that for all intents and purposes were impossible to recreate bugs in to debug. They took data from so many outside sources that the “state” of…

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Re: GPT is all you need for the back end

#39

Yes I could do that. I could indeed invoke something that requires god-knows how many tensor cores, vram, not to mention the power requirements of all that hardware, in order to power a simple CRUD App. Or, I could not do that, and instead have it done by a sub-100-lines python script, running on a battery powered Pi.

You don't actually think this is serious, do you?

That's what I said about JavaScript almost 30 years ago.
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