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Re: Codex-maxxing

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Post by InsideOutSanta »

lucianbr wrote: post #15
esperent wrote: post #7

> Every 30 minutes, check Slack and Gmail for unanswered messages that need my attention... > When I come back to Slack, replies are often already sitting in drafts. I still decide what gets sent, but the expensive part of gathering context is done. This just feels so dystopian to me. I hope that I never work with you or someone else doing this. I personally do use LLMs for work messaging but I'm extremely careful to…

If the other people in the org are using LLMs to a similar degree, any question to which an LLM can provide a good answer to will never get sent. How useful are the draft replies then?

I guess the point might not be to be useful, but to pingpong responsibility back to somebody else. "There, sent a response, not it's their problem again."

Re: Codex-maxxing

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Post by ClikeX »

exitb wrote: post #22
isodev wrote: post #20

Anything with “maxxing” in the name is most likely not good for you

I came to understand it as "optimizing well past the point of diminishing returns".

I've understood it as obsessive optimization to the point that it's a mental health problem. Case in point, looksmaxxing.

Re: Codex-maxxing

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Post by ClikeX »

dist-epoch wrote: post #29
esperent wrote: post #7

> Every 30 minutes, check Slack and Gmail for unanswered messages that need my attention... > When I come back to Slack, replies are often already sitting in drafts. I still decide what gets sent, but the expensive part of gathering context is done. This just feels so dystopian to me. I hope that I never work with you or someone else doing this. I personally do use LLMs for work messaging but I'm extremely careful to…

Sounds more like CYA. If instead of LLM you googled do you also say "Here are the CPU architectures pytorch supports, that Google search returned"

You've never said "I found this on Google"?

Re: Codex-maxxing

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Post by [deleted] »

skiing_crawling wrote: post #27

Is this LLM psychosis? So much tending and conversing with the matmuls but what was the outcome? Are people who get this into it more successful somehow? It reminds me of people who take drugs and get "revelations" but then are not particularly over represented in the group of successful people for all of their deep insights.

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Re: Codex-maxxing

#37

Post by Amekedl »

skiing_crawling wrote: post #27

Is this LLM psychosis? So much tending and conversing with the matmuls but what was the outcome? Are people who get this into it more successful somehow? It reminds me of people who take drugs and get "revelations" but then are not particularly over represented in the group of successful people for all of their deep insights.

You are absolutely right! Kidding, but the analogy sits comfortably with me. I wonder though if this kind of behavior is potentially harmful, most likely less than drugs but nonetheless...

Re: Codex-maxxing

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Post by muvlon »

ClikeX wrote: post #32
exitb wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I came to understand it as "optimizing well past the point of diminishing returns".

I've understood it as obsessive optimization to the point that it's a mental health problem. Case in point, looksmaxxing.

Ever since it's breached the mainstream, I think you can just append it to anything to make things sound funnier. It has mostly lost its meaning.

"I'm breakfastmaxxing. I'm a cerealpilled bowlcel in my milk era. I'm a slicemoded breadchad." etc.

Re: Codex-maxxing

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Post by trhway »

villgax wrote: post #21
4k0hz wrote: post #9

The author of this post works at OpenAI on the Codex team.

same author who's idea of constraint decoding for structured outputs was to run an schema-begging-API call in a loop 10 times & then throw an exception on failure.

OpenAI per employee valuation is $150M+ (almost 100x of per employee valuation of our company). I think it may make sense to ponder a bit why a $150M engineer would have such an idea. May it be it is the preferred way of doing things in the new AI world, a paradigm shift.
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