Greg Lorriman @GregL2

Where am I going wrong? There's a drift against the use of exceptions and I think it's a mistake. Swift, for instance, doesn't have real exceptions at all. Does my article make sense? See the link 🔗 below.

Makes a lot of sense if you know how they work. Still, if there's a website or book or reddit post that lists what might be missing as "things people forget" or some such, then the LLM might be able to spot it.

BURKOV @burkov

2 months ago

Makes a lot of sense if you know how they work. Still, if there's a website or book or reddit post that lists what might be missing as "things people forget" or some such, then the LLM might be able to spot it.

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As weak as AI is in reality, if it’s 1% better than 80% of employees, it can replace them. It’s similar to self-driving cars: if self-driving car kills less people than human drivers, then it’s a go. x.com/erikbryn/statu…

Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn

2 years ago

As weak as AI is in reality, if it’s 1% better than 80% of employees, it can replace them. It’s similar to self-driving cars: if self-driving car kills less people than human drivers, then it’s a go. x.com/erikbryn/statu…

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If you think about how LLMs work, this was the only conclusion. But there has been a lot of evidence for some time also. It was logically impossible that LLMs would ever reason.

Ruben Hassid @RubenHssd

3 months ago

If you think about how LLMs work, this was the only conclusion. But there has been a lot of evidence for some time also. It was logically impossible that LLMs would ever reason.

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The hardest part in LM-assisted coding is to stop. The process is crazily addictive, especially when you build something you always dreamt of.

CS graduates are often no better than bootcampers. Maybe except if the uni was a Russell group university. I helped a non Russell Group undergrad. She was utterly useless and got a 2:1!!???! I remember teaching hashtables at one of my jobs. Basic stuff. youtube.com/shorts/ehv-Ls9…

Reminder: this is all fake. Any time someone makes a claim like this, either they are lying, or every single programmer they know is completely awful and can’t program at all. x.com/alexalbert__/s…

Alex Albert @alexalbert__

3 months ago

Reminder: this is all fake. Any time someone makes a claim like this, either they are lying, or every single programmer they know is completely awful and can’t program at all. x.com/alexalbert__/s…

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OMG, o3 is poor at guiding you through a project setup. Asked it for a detailed step-by-step to bootstrap a Svelte web application on a Mac: errors on every command I run. I fought with it for half an hour and switched to Gemini. No issues at all. All commands resulted in…

It's for governments not lawyers and experts to decide the copyright issue. As mentioned by a comment, it's an arms race, but also potentially a trade race. I can see this report being ignored and original (human) content providers not getting paid.

Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex

4 months ago

It's for governments not lawyers and experts to decide the copyright issue. As mentioned by a comment, it's an arms race, but also potentially a trade race. I can see this report being ignored and original (human) content providers not getting paid.

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"2025 - Personal assistants smarter than any human alive." Not happening with auto-regressive transformer models trained using statistical gradient descent (GD) based learning. Not happening.

VraserX e/acc @VraserX

4 months ago

"2025 - Personal assistants smarter than any human alive." Not happening with auto-regressive transformer models trained using statistical gradient descent (GD) based learning. Not happening.

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A bit of dart fun. Do you know what's going on here? Very useful for navigating dodgy json. I've thrown in the bizarre # as a distraction; I wonder if anyone uses them?

AIs are fancy word-association statistical databases. There is no mind or thinking, just lookup tables. Simulated Intelligence, not AIs. They're very useful, but you can't have a meaningful relationship with them. I think perhaps there will be an explosion of mental illness.