Whole-known-network
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> don’t give them ideas!</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> I dont want to be a dick, I have burned myself multiple times on various kickstarter projects and this one in particular rises just enough red flags for me to be vary about the hype, however I would love to be wrong - especially about this one.</p>
<p>Was about to listen to the recent interview Zelenskyy gave to Lex Fridman.</p><p>Fridman, from the get-go: "People like Donald Trump and Elon Musk *really care* about fighting corruption…"</p><p>Me: Okay, I think I heard everything I needed from this interview, bye.</p>
<p>The UK is now making grooming gangs a national concern. They are bringing up old issues. </p><p>Wait for Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia (a Muslim country and a member of BRICS), to drop the bombshell on human trafficking of young girls perpetrated by British and other European sexpats and groomers. It will be all over the web.</p>
<p>The UK is now making grooming gangs a national concern. They are bringing up old issues. </p><p>Wait for Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia (a Muslim country and a member of BRICS), to drop the bombshell on human trafficking of young girls perpetrated by British and other European expats and groomers. It will be all over the web.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@danluu" class="u-url mention">@<span>danluu</span></a></span> yes, for sure, "learning just enough programming to write the app" is learning a skill</p><p>but so is "learning to iteratively apply an LLM assistant to a codebase, and to extract enough information from failure cases to feed it back"</p><p>it's not obvious to me that the latter skill takes much less effort than the former</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@danluu" class="u-url mention">@<span>danluu</span></a></span> although i want to point out a potential confounding factor here</p><p>non-programmers have always been writing code! they would often write code that is kind of garbage but mostly works! game development is particularly full of this phenomenon</p><p>so i think you have to compare LLMs against not "nobody writes the app" but "the same non-programmer learns just enough programming to write the app"</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@danluu" class="u-url mention">@<span>danluu</span></a></span> yeah, i arrived at similar conclusions years ago</p><p>will LLMs ever replace me, specifically? nah, i can outcompete with any assistant the tech industry can produce, at a fraction of the resources it requires</p><p>will LLMs be useful at generating basically garbage code at a fraction of a cost of a human generating basically garbage code (that still sort of works)? yeah i guess</p>
<p>And, sure, the LLM generated code isn't great, but if I compare the game and "AI" in <a href="https://danluu.com/codenames/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">danluu.com/codenames/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> to commercially successful online board game implementations that were created by human programmers, the LLM generated version is faster and less buggy.</p><p>Per the argument in <a href="https://danluu.com/customer-service/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">danluu.com/customer-service/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> (see also, <a href="https://danluu.com/p95-skill/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">danluu.com/p95-skill/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>), AI doesn't have to be very good to replace humans in a lot of roles because, in practice, humans often aren't all that good.</p>
