Humans don't abstain from nukes in simulated games either.
'Nuclear Launch detected'.
Readit Newsdelegate commented on "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name jkap.io/token-anxiety-or-... · Posted by u/presbyterian
It's very tempting to agree to the 'gambling' part, given that both a jackpot and progress towards the goal in your project will give you a hit of dopamine.
The difference is that in gambling 'the house always wins', but in our case we do make progress towards our goal of conquering the world with our newly minted apps.
The situation where this comparison holds is when vibe coding leads nowhere and you don't accomplish anything but just burn through tokens.
delegate commented on Building SQLite with a small swarm kiankyars.github.io/machi... · Posted by u/kyars
Great work! Obviously the goal of this is not to replace sqlite, but to show that agents can do this today.
That said, I'm a lot more curious about the Harness part ( Bootstrap_Prompt, Agent_Prompt, etc) then I am in what the agents have accomplished. Eg, how can I repeat this myself ? I couldn't find that in the repo...
delegate commented on I'm not worried about AI job loss davidoks.blog/p/why-im-no... · Posted by u/ezekg
Bottlenecks. Yes. Company structures these days are not compatible with efficient use of these new AI models.
Software engineers work on Jira tickets, created by product managers and several layers of middle managers.
But the power of recent models is not in working on cogs, their true power is in working on the entire mechanism.
When talking about a piece of software that a company produces, I'll use the analogy of a puzzle.
A human hierarchy (read: company) works on designing the big puzzle at the top and delegating the individual pieces to human engineers. This process goes back and forth between levels in the hierarchy until the whole puzzle slowly emerges. Until recently, AI could only help on improving the pieces of the puzzle.
Latest models got really good at working on the entire puzzle - big picture and pieces.
This makes human hierarchy obsolete and a bottleneck.
The future seems to be one operator working on the entire puzzle, minus the hierarchy of people.
Of course, it's not just about the software, but streams of information - customer support, bug tickets, testing, changing customer requirements.. but all of these can be handled by AI even today. And it will only get better.
This means different things depending on which angle you look at it - yes, it will mean companies will become obsolete, but also that each employee can become a company.
delegate commented on The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday campedersen.com/singulari... · Posted by u/ecto
It's worth remembering that this is all happening because of video games !
It is highly unlikely that the hardware which makes LLMs possible would have been developed otherwise.
Isn't that amazing ?
Just like internet grew because of p*rn, AI grew because of video games. Of course, that's just a funny angle.
The way I see it, AI isn't accidental. Its inception has been in the first chips, the Internet, Open Source, Github, ... AI is not just the neural networks - it's also the data used to train it, the OSes, APIs, the Cloud computing, the data centers, the scalable architectures.. everything we've been working on over the last decades was inevitably leading us to this. And even before the chips, it was the maths, the physics ..
Singularity it seems, is inevitable and it was inevitable for longer than we can remember.
delegate commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01
One thing that could happen is that someone might decide to vibe code a Discord clone, without all the extra crap. I'm sure there are people out there doing this already.
There's this interesting arc of growth for apps which are successful. At first users love it, company grows, founders get rich, they hire expensive people to develop the product and increase revenue until eventually the initial culture and mission is replaced by internal politics and processes.
Software starts getting features which users don't want or need, side effects of the company size and their Q4 roadmap to 'optimize' revenue|engagement|profits|growth|...
Users become tools in the hands of the app they initially used as a tool. This model worked well so far and built some of the biggest companies in history.
AI could make this business model less effective. Once a piece of software becomes successful and veers off into crap territory, people will start cloning it, keeping only the features that made that software successful initially. Companies who try to strong arm their users will see users jump ship, or rather, de-board on islands.
At least I hope this will be the case.
There's some irony in the fact that LLMs are in large part possible because of open source software.
From the tools which were used to design and develop the models (programming languages, libraries) to the operating systems running them to the databases used for storing training data .. plus of course they were trained mostly on open source code.
If OSS didn't exist, it's highly unlikely that LLMs would have been built.
delegate commented on · Posted by u/radarroark
I wouldn’t call this next-gen SQLite. How can it be when the “QL” of SQLite is “Query Language” and this doesn’t have one? This is an object serialization library.
Not really. This db allows traversing the (deeply nested) data structures without loading them into memory. Eg. In Clojure you can do
```
(get-in db [:people "john" :address :city])
```
Where `:people` is a key in a huge (larger than memory) map. This database will only touch the referenced nodes when traversing, without loading the whole thing into memory.
So the 'query language' is actually your programming language. To the programmer this database looks like an in-memory data structure, when in fact it's efficiently reading data from the disk. Plus immutability of course (meaning you can go back in history).
delegate commented on Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work claude.com/blog/cowork-re... · Posted by u/adocomplete
Do the people rushing off to outsource their work to chatbots have a plan to explain to their bosses why they still need to have a job?
What's the play after you have automated yourselves out of a job?
Retrain as a skilled worker? Expect to be the lucky winner who is cahoots with the CEO/CTO and magically gets to keep the job? Expect the society to turn to social democracy and produce UBI? Make enough money to live off investments portfolio?
I wonder who the managers are going to manage..
I had to stop doing this because it greatly slowed down and confuse the model, when it did a repo search and found results in some old md files. Plus token usage went through the roof. So keeping changes in the open like that in the repo doesn't work.
Not sure how tfa works, but hopefully the model doesn't see that data.