charlesju (u/charlesju)

charlesju commented on Ask HN: How much of OpenAI code is written by AI? · Posted by u/growbell_social

ManlyBread · 2 months ago

>I think this is the wrong question.

Why? It is a perfectly legitimate question where the answer is some sort of a percentage.

charlesju · 2 months ago

You write an essay in bullet points then you put the essay into ChatGPT to clean up and then you edit the output again before sending in the essay.

Who wrote the essay and in which percentage?

charlesju commented on Ask HN: How much of OpenAI code is written by AI? · Posted by u/growbell_social

ythiscoyness · 2 months ago

More programmers than ever before makes this implicitly true.

It’s not as clever as the author hoped.

charlesju · 2 months ago

From my personal account, I started with PHP and Perl (high school and college) and then graduated to Ruby on Rails (early dev career) and now its Python and JS.

I would say Ruby on Rails was a 10x on raw PHP in terms of feature specs per hour and AI is a 10x on Ruby on Rails (and its derivatives).

We're probably 100x the developer productivity on a per developer basis from the early days of Web 2.0 with PHP, just a personal anecdote though.

charlesju commented on Ask HN: How much of OpenAI code is written by AI? · Posted by u/growbell_social

charlesju · 2 months ago

I think this is the wrong question.

The right question is how much human code can a human push now vs prior to AI.

Everything we've done in coding has been assisted.

Prior to this current generation of web applications, we had the advent of concepts like Object Orientated Programming and prior to that even C was a massive move up from Assembly and punch cards.

AI has written a lot of code. AI has written very little high velocity production code by itself (ie. for people with no coding background).

In Ruby on Rails, the concept of fast coding has been around for over 20 years, look up this concept of Scaffolding: https://www.rubyguides.com/2020/03/rails-scaffolding/

So to answer your question,

1. AI has pushed a lot of code 2. AI has pushed almost no code without the oversight of human software engineers 3. Software engineers are pushing a magnitude more code and producing more functional utility and solving more bugs than ever before

I don't know what the future holds, but I do think that this is not a new trend to use software to help humans build faster, and I don't think software has the ability to fully replace humans (yet).

charlesju commented on Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its sources beta.sayhello.so/... · Posted by u/rushingcreek

MuffinFlavored · 3 years ago

> Pulling the meat of the content from a site like StackOverflow ends up as a copyright/anti-trust violation.

Then how did ChatGPT do it?

charlesju · 3 years ago

Non profit right?

charlesju commented on Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit wsj.com/articles/netflix-... · Posted by u/goplayoutside

rossdavidh · 3 years ago

Quite possibly, but if you had a labor shortage you would waste your time managing the prima-donnas for lack of alternatives. If you're about to do layoffs anyway, no need.

charlesju · 3 years ago

This is not true. People that are not aligned with the company's values create negative enterprise value.

charlesju commented on Sega Europe suffers major security breach vpnoverview.com/news/sega... · Posted by u/aaronwp

EGreg · 4 years ago

So the store owner can just leave all his customers’ credit card information lying around and ignore PCI compliance etc. because anyone who would possibly use it for nefarious purposes is a criminal?

How would you prevent such negligence

charlesju · 4 years ago

Two wrongs don't make a right

charlesju commented on India seeks to block most cryptocurrencies in new bill, government says reuters.com/world/india/n... · Posted by u/shenoybr

dboreham · 4 years ago

Crypto industry must not be contributing enough to politicians, like they seem to do in the US.

charlesju · 4 years ago

They need to sponsor more sports teams

charlesju commented on Ask HN: How is the “metaverse” concept different from the Second Life boom? · Posted by u/0des

abeppu · 4 years ago

Who arbitrates which NFTs-based claims are respected versus not? How does one decide authenticity? And once you have an answer to such a question (relying on some preexisting system of ownership in the real world), then why should we care about tokens?

E.g. if someone _does_ try to create an NFT for the Mona Lisa, our ability to refute / accept its authenticity is premised on the knowledge that in the real world, the French Republic itself owns the work. How would we trust that the keys associated with minting the NFT were controlled by the French Republic? Presumably we'd need some public statement of attestation from an official French government body, and perhaps with the concurrence of others, to have confidence that this wasn't a rogue intern at the Ministry of Culture, or a hacker that got control to some official accounts or pages.

But applying this logic to "avatars" seems to be either broken or creepy. Who has the authority to say that you are or aren't you?

charlesju · 4 years ago

Who arbitrates which NFTs-based claims are respected versus not?

> Future metaverse platforms will partner with high quality communities

How does one decide authenticity?

> That's the whole innovation behind the blockchain. Decentralized ownership claims.

And once you have an answer to such a question (relying on some preexisting system of ownership in the real world), then why should we care about tokens?

> For example, you could care about the token for the specific "metaverse" you're playing in

Who has the authority to say that you are or aren't you?

> I think you're touching on a very philosophically deep question of who you are. You think that the things you are and that you own are inherently yours, but I would argue your stuff and even your identity is all a social construct.

> For example, if you woke up tomorrow and everyone around you collectively agreed to say that you're insane and that you're an alien. Are you going to trust your own memories or are you going to trust the people around you.

> But I think you're missing out on the core innovation of blockchain which mimics the same way we determine who owns anything, which is completely a social construct.

charlesju commented on Ask HN: How is the “metaverse” concept different from the Second Life boom? · Posted by u/0des

tehbeard · 4 years ago

> shame people that have knock offs in their virtual environment

Because the bullying at school for having non-brand clothing or things wasn't enough. You'll need Supreme(TM) nfts, or become a digital pariah?

charlesju · 4 years ago

NFTs are country club memberships.