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Re: Codex-maxxing

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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.

Madoff had good numbers too.

Re: Codex-maxxing

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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.

source?

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Re: Codex-maxxing

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post #40
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

We all know the most highly valued people in the world are the smartest. In fact, the more money you're being paid, the more value you add, the more your opinion is worth, and the more skill you have. The amount of money you're worth is actually directly proportional to your worth as a human being

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Re: Codex-maxxing

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I hope I never have to work with people like this. Actual nightmare fuel to live your entire life through LLMs. "I trained Claude to love my wife so I can focus on prompting" vibes.

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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.

this is so funny because it's true. it was a handy library but a lot of the shine wore off when I realize how it actually worked.

Re: Codex-maxxing

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> Last week I tried to migrate the Python Rich library into Rust. Because the original project already had a large unit test suite, I could set a goal like: migrate Rich into Rust, but it must pass all the unit tests from the original library.

At what point do we stop calling this development ? It's nothing even close to the process of development or engineering. "I tried to migrate X". No you didn't, you tried to ask an LLM and hoped for the best.

I mean, honestly at what point would you bother, there's no learning happening, there's no creativity happening, just talking to a literal text generator to request your refund while you go for a shower, novelty, maybe even convenient but absolutely not development.

Re: Codex-maxxing

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I hope I never have to work with people like this. Actual nightmare fuel to live your entire life through LLMs. "I trained Claude to love my wife so I can focus on prompting" vibes.

I worry that in the not too distant future, the vast majority of people even semi interested in CS will be too dependent on LLM's. Like Assembly is not as common a toolchain, but people using LLM's as a replacement for every abstracted level of life is not a good idea.

Re: Codex-maxxing

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> Thariq has a very good post about preferring HTML over Markdown as an output format. I think that instinct is right

I bet you do, working at OpenAI you get paid for more token use.

Re: Codex-maxxing

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post #40
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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