And this will help them land that six figure job
I mean, as a hiring manager, a fresh grad with multiple bug bounties tells me a lot about their drive and skill, so I'd agree. It's a great differentiator.
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bbarn commented on A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs addxorrol.blogspot.com/20... · Posted by u/zdw
My question: how do we know that this is not similar to how human brains work. What seems intuitively logical to me is that we have brains evolved through evolutionary process via random mutations yielding in a structure that has its own evolutionary reward based algorithms designing it yielding a structure that at any point is trying to predict next actions to maximise survival/procreation, of course with a lot of sub goals in between, ultimately becoming this very complex machinery, but yet should be easily simulated if there was enough compute in theory and physical constraints would allow for it.
Because, morals, values, consciousness etc could just be subgoals that arised through evolution because they support the main goals of survival and procreation.
And if it is baffling to think that a system could rise up, how do you think it is possible life and humans came to existence in the first place? How could it be possible? It is already happened from a far unlikelier and strange place. And wouldn't you think the whole World and the timeline in theory couldn't be represented as a deterministic function. And if not then why should "randomness" or anything else bring life to existence.
I think it's just an unfair comparison in general. The power of the LLM is the zero risk to failure, and lack of consequence when it does. Just try again, using a different prompt, retrain maybe, etc.
Humans make a bad choice, it can end said human's life. The worst choice a LLM makes just gets told "no, do it again, let me make it easier"
bbarn commented on Hidden interface controls that affect usability interactions.acm.org/arch... · Posted by u/cxr
I sort of disagree with this: once I’ve internalized the gestures, I really appreciate the lack of UI for them. It’s like vim and emacs: the sparse ui creates a steeper learning curve but becomes a feature once you’ve learned the tool
That was the point of the article. Users with knowledge of how it works can do it fine, but new users can't.
Your average dev who's never used vim or vi will start frustrated by default.
bbarn commented on You are what you launch: how software became a lifestyle brand omeru.bearblog.dev/lifest... · Posted by u/freediver
> I don't know what universe the author is living in, has anyone else realized "everyone around them stopped using Chrome"?
Maybe it's the same universe in which capital letters were never invented.
I can in here to be snarky about this because it drives me nuts and screams "I'm so artsy" that it's aggravating. But you beat me to it.
bbarn commented on Human coders are still better than LLMs antirez.com/news/153... · Posted by u/longwave
Very well said. Using code assistance is going to be table stakes moving forward, not something that can replace people. It’s not like competitors can’t also purchase AI subscriptions.
Honestly, if you're not doing it now, you're behind. The sheer amount of time savings using it smartly can give you to allow you to focus on the parts that actually matter is massive.
bbarn commented on Human coders are still better than LLMs antirez.com/news/153... · Posted by u/longwave
The thing everyone forgets when talking about LLMs replacing coders is that there is much more to software engineering than writing code, in fact that's probably one of the smaller aspects of the job.
One major aspect of software engineering is social, requirements analysis and figuring out what the customer actually wants, they often don't know.
If a human engineer struggles to figure out what a customer wants and a customer struggles to specify it, how can an LLM be expected to?
The thing is, it is replacing _coders_ in a way. There are millions of people who do (or did) the work that LLMs excel at. Coders who are given a ticket that says "Write this API taking this input and giving this output" who are so far down the chain they don't even get involved in things like requirements analysis, or even interact with customers.
Software engineering, is a different thing, and I agree you're right (for now at least) about that, but don't underestimate the sheer amount of brainless coders out there.
bbarn commented on Human coders are still better than LLMs antirez.com/news/153... · Posted by u/longwave
> When talking with reasonable people
When talking with reasonable people, they will tell you if they don't understand what you're saying.
When talking with reasonable people, they will tell you if they don't know the answer or if they are unsure about their answer.
LLMs do none of that.
They will very happily, and very confidently, spout complete bullshit at you.
It is essentially a lotto draw as to whether the answer is hallucinated, completely wrong, subtly wrong, not ideal, sort of right or correct.
An LLM is a bit like those spin the wheel game shows on TV really.
They will also not be offended or harbor ill will when you completely reject their "pull request" and rephrase the requirements.
Assuming power stayed automated, I wonder if all life on earth just vanished, how long AIs would keep talking to each other on reddit? I have to assume as long as the computers stayed up.
My late father in law worked with them engineering the previous version of this car. It's about maximizing performance and engineering challenges. Many of the engineers are seasoned veterans of large car company's engineering teams, or racing teams. This is a playground for them to figure things out that you just don't justify on consumer cars.