But is GPT a web scale like MongoDB?
GPT is all you need for the back end
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
ChatGPT is great at pretending it knows its sh*t.
It strikes me as the perfect VC-fundable technology. Instead of humans having to make often-delusional claims about the future of a technology that feed the hype cycle long enough to attract gobs of money, they can now fully automate the work.
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#53Even if this is not 100% serious, it is really starting to feel like the ship computer from star trek is not too far away.
Maybe a little off the topic, but I was thinking just the other day that Alexa/Google Home/Siri could be made significantly better if it accepted instructions the way ChatGPT does.
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#54I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
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#55I did something very similar, with React and Redux and ChatGPT standing in for the reducer: https://spindas.dreamwidth.org/4207.html
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34166193
It works surprisingly well!
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#56Of course this will only work if your user's state can be captured within the 4096 tokens limit or whatever limit your llm imposes. More if you can accept forgetting least recent data. Might actually be OK for quite a few apps.
I tried getting it to generate a Red-Black tree in Java but it cuts off half way through.
I suppose you could divide and conquer with smaller parts of the algorithm, but then we'd need a "meta AI" that can keep track of all those parts and integrate them into a whole. I'm sure it's possible, don't know if it's available as a solution yet.
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#57This sounds like a nightmare lmao.
Can you imagine trying to debug a system like this? Backend work is trawling through thousands of lines of carefully thought-out code trying to figure out where the bug is—I can't fathom trying to work on a large system where the logic just makes itself up as it goes.
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#58But is GPT a web scale like MongoDB?
The idea is that chatGPT just writes the code, it would be still be hosted as usual.
We’re going through a hype phase right now and i don’t believe chatGPT will completely replace devs or code will be written entirely with AI but i feel something will change for sure and something unexpected will come out of this
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
A developer getting paid because an investor misunderstands a technology isn’t anything we need to get too worried about, I think. It seems to be a big part of our industry, and I don’t know if that’s ever going to change. I sometimes think of all the crapware dApps that got shoveled out in the last boom - little of meaning was created from a technical standpoint, but smart people got to do what they love to put bread on the table.
Perhaps I’m being overly simplistic, but I don’t see it as all that different from contractors getting paid to do silly and tasteless renos on McMansions. Objectively a bad way to reinvest one’s money, but it’s a wealth transfer in the direction I prefer, so I’ll hold my judgement.
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#60This sounds like a nightmare lmao. Can you imagine trying to debug a system like this? Backend work is trawling through thousands of lines of carefully thought-out code trying to figure out where the bug is—I can't fathom trying to work on a large system where the logic just makes itself up as it goes.
You thought funny book magicians were just bad at their craft didn’t you? Not so! They’re software engineers from the future dealing with AI-based systems.