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It's literally text autocomplete. You can dress it up however you want but it takes input text and outputs the most likely next sequence.
Sufficiently good text autocomplete is indistinguishable from intelligence to an impartial observer, and that's the only honest criterion for intelligence.
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I don't think anything is going to calm down. Models will only get better with time, not worse. Demand will keep raising.
Of course they're not going to get worse. That would be absurd. The rate of progress will slow down though.
1. AI free training sets no longer exist. This might degrade quality, although some claim that it will not.
2. Cost. Right now they are burning a lot of money to convince people it's good. But they might not be able to keep it up forever and need to increase prices (which few will want to pay) or degrade the quality to save money.
> Where you should expect to see us evolve is in the quality, depth and pace of innovation we ship. Yes, letting some LLMs "plan, code, review, deploy" will for sure improve quality and depth of innovation you ship.
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It's literally text autocomplete. You can dress it up however you want but it takes input text and outputs the most likely next sequence.
Reminds me of when microwaves first came out. Investors decided to go all in on "vibe cooking" (lit. cooking with vibrations) complete with microwave ranges (no conventional oven), until the public wizened up to the fact that there was in fact no cooking (Maillard reaction) involved in their vibe cooking. Took about 15-20 years but microwaves finally took their rightful place as a utility appliance rather than what t…
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What makes you think you're anything more than a 'text autocompleter'? You are justing auto completing someone's comment
This thought that “maybe we are just next token predictors too” is not particularly clever. Most of us have thought about that, but a bit of experience with LLMs make it obvious that’s not what’s going on here. I think it’s a bit like listening to a recording of a person and swearing there’s an actual person in the recording device because the audible output is indistinguishable from the real thing. Why would you do…
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Right? I was seriously considering migrating everything in our company from GitHub to GitLab. Now I'm seriously considering self hosting our git instead.
Using Tangled for my stuff now, it's alpha, but it's a bit fun to host your own Knot and Spindle servers but still connect to a full social graph.
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For a good reminder for people on the limitations of AI (or well OAI gpt 5.3 default model for non paying users), I did an experiment recently (Just a week-ish ago): https://smileplease.mataroa.blog/blog/how-many-e-are-in-stra... image: https://mataroa.blog/images/b5c65214.png but it says that there are 3 e's in strawberry ;) Now this is literally something which occurs because of it being text autocomplete and the i…
Grok auto: 1 “Strawberry” has only one “e”. S T R A W B E R R Y Gemini: There is *1* "e" in the word "strawberry". Seems fine
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I've used this text autocomplete to autocomplete me a Python setup and to autocomplete automatically running it. It that scrapes Hn it works. Ironically, it's why I'm here.
Why would you scrape HN when they offer free, generous API?
A lot of the conclusions they're drawing in this post about the "agentic era" seem quite misguided and some don't really seem to make sense. I have no doubt GitLab has too many employees and can benefit from being a more focused company, but it's tiring reading these layoff posts so chock full of buzzwords. I guess they're desperately hoping if they prognosticate about AI enough it will placate the investors.
Let these people keep betting their companies, futures and net competency on text autocomplete. The future is bright for me and everyone else that isn't falling for it.
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What makes you think you're anything more than a 'text autocompleter'? You are justing auto completing someone's comment
This thought that “maybe we are just next token predictors too” is not particularly clever. Most of us have thought about that, but a bit of experience with LLMs make it obvious that’s not what’s going on here. I think it’s a bit like listening to a recording of a person and swearing there’s an actual person in the recording device because the audible output is indistinguishable from the real thing. Why would you do…
I claim that a modern frontier LLM can be given simple instructions that make it impossible for a person to reliably distinguish it from a person over a bidirectional text-only medium.