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etra0 commented on Reflections on AI at the End of 2025   antirez.com/news/157... · Posted by u/danielfalbo
layer8 · 7 days ago
> We can just run the code and see if the output is what we expected

There is a vast gap between the output happening to be what you expect and code being actually correct.

That is, in a way, also the fundamental issue with LLMs: They are designed to produce “expected” output, not correct output.

etra0 · 6 days ago
That is exactly my point, though.

I didn't mean they do it on the first time, or that it is correct, I mean that you can 'run' and 'test it' to see if it does what you want in the way you want.

The same cannot be said to any other topics like medical advice, life advice, etc.

The point is, how verifiable is the output the LLM gives and so how useful it is.

etra0 commented on Reflections on AI at the End of 2025   antirez.com/news/157... · Posted by u/danielfalbo
ponector · 7 days ago
>> LLMs don't try to scam you, don't try to fool you, don't look out for their own interests

LLMs don't try to scam/fool you, LLM providers do.

Remember how Grok bragged that Musk had the “potential to drink piss better than any human in history” and was the “ultimate throat goat,” whose “blowjob prowess edges out” Donald Trump’s. Grok also posited that Musk was more physically fit than LeBron James, and that he would have been a better recipient of the 2016 porn industry award than porn star Riley Reid.

etra0 · 7 days ago
Completely off-topic but I just love how the pettiness of Musk was abused by twitter community.

I had a chuckle reading all of these.

etra0 commented on Reflections on AI at the End of 2025   antirez.com/news/157... · Posted by u/danielfalbo
laterium · 7 days ago
The issue you're overlooking is the scarcity of experts. You're comparing the current situation to an alternative universe where every person can ask a doctor their questions 10 times a day and instantly get an accurate response.

That is not the reality we're living in. Doctors barely give you 5 minutes even if you get an appointment days or weeks in advance. There is just nobody to ask. The alternatives today are

1) Don't ask, rely on yourself, definitely worse than asking a doctor

2) Ask an LLM, which gets you 80-90% of the way there.

3) Google it and spend hours sifting through sponsored posts and scams, often worse than relying on yourself.

The hallucinations that happen are massively outweighed by the benefits people get by asking them. Perfect is the enemy of good enough, and LLMs are good enough.

Much more important also is that LLMs don't try to scam you, don't try to fool you, don't look out for their own interests. Their mistakes are not intentional. They're fiduciaries in the best sense, just like doctors are, probably even more so.

etra0 · 7 days ago
> 2) Ask an LLM, which gets you 80-90% of the way there.

Hallucinations and sycophancy are still an issue, 80-90% is being generous I think.

I know this is not issues of the LLM itself, but rather the implementation & companies behind them (since there are open models as well), but, what limits to LLMs to be enshittified by corp needs?

I've seen this very recently with Grok, people were asking trolley-like problems comparing Elon Musk to anything, and Grok very frequently chose Elon Musk most of the time because it is probably embedded in the system prompt or training [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/21/elon-musk...

etra0 commented on Reflections on AI at the End of 2025   antirez.com/news/157... · Posted by u/danielfalbo
santadays · 7 days ago
I get this take, but given the state of the world (the US anyways), I find it hard to trust anyone with any kind of profit motive. I feel like any information can’t be taken as fact, it can just be rolled into your world view and discarded if useful or not. If you need to make a decision that can’t be backed out of that has real world consequences I think/hope most people are learning to do as much due diligence as reasonable. Llms seem at this moment to be trying to give reliable information. When they’ve been fine tuned to avoid certain topics it’s obvious. This could change but I suspect it will be hard to find tune them too far in a direction without losing capability.

That said, it definitely feels as though keeping a coherent picture of what is actually happening is getting harder, which is scary.

etra0 · 7 days ago
> I find it hard to trust anyone with any kind of profit motive.

As much as this is true, and i.e. doctors for sure can profit (here in my country they don't get any type of sponsor money AFAIK, other than having very high rates), there is still accountability.

We have built a society based on rules and laws, if someone does something that can harm you, you can follow the path to at least hold someone accountable (or, try).

The same cannot be said about LLMs.

etra0 commented on Reflections on AI at the End of 2025   antirez.com/news/157... · Posted by u/danielfalbo
raincole · 7 days ago
> using AI to ask for medical advice

So the number of anti-vaxxers is going to plummet drastically in the following decade, I guess.

etra0 · 7 days ago
I haven't tried with this specific topic, but being the pleasers llms are, I doubt someone so focused on being anti-vaxxer will be convinced by an LLM, if anything, the LLM will give them reason at some point.
etra0 commented on Reflections on AI at the End of 2025   antirez.com/news/157... · Posted by u/danielfalbo
etra0 · 7 days ago
LLMs have certainly become extremely useful for Software Engineers, they're very convincing (and pleasers, too) and I'm still unsure about the future of our day-to-day job.

But one thing that has scared me the most, is the trust of LLMs output to the general society. I believe that for software engineers it's really easy to see if it's being useful or not -- We can just run the code and see if the output is what we expected, if not, iterate it, and continue. There's still a professional looking to what it produces.

On the contrary, for more day-to-day usage of the general pubic, is getting really scary. I've had multiple members of my family using AI to ask for medical advice, life advice, and stuff were I still see hallucinations daily, but at the same time they're so convincing that it's hard for them not to trust them.

I still have seen fake quotes, fake investigations, fake news being spreaded by LLMs that have affected decisions (maybe, not as crucials yet but time will tell) and that's a danger that most software engineers just gross over.

Accountability is a big asterisk that everyone seems to ignore

etra0 commented on Writing our own cheat engine (2021)   lonami.dev/blog/woce-1/... · Posted by u/hu3
cybit · 17 days ago
I previously wrote a helper tool in rust that injected into a C++ based online game, and it worked really well. Rust turned out to be an excellent choice for the job to me.
etra0 · 17 days ago
It works wonders! I build free-cameras and some other tools (all for offline games, of course) fully in Rust, and you'd be surprised how much you could do.

In one of them I hook into C++'s inheritance with no issue, just by understanding how everything works within the compiler you can do a lot.

etra0 commented on Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism   lux-magazine.com/article/... · Posted by u/eustoria
dpark · a month ago
> “This photo is not interesting other than the naked woman”

My first instinct is to agree with this sentiment. There’s a lot of pretty mediocre photography that gets attention because “naked woman”.

At the same time, you could equally say “that landscape photo is not interesting if you take away the lake”. If you take away the interesting piece of a photo, yeah, it’s not interesting anymore. The fact is that people (but especially men) enjoy looking at naked and near-naked women. It’s a consistently compelling subject. It might be “easy” but it’s still compelling.

etra0 · a month ago
I guess if you take it literally, yeah.

But I've seen plenty of boring pics of lakes and none were on top posts, contrary to these cases.

It is of course subjective what makes a good photo or not, but sometimes it is pretty clear why a picture reached top posts.

etra0 commented on Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism   lux-magazine.com/article/... · Posted by u/eustoria
ClikeX · a month ago
Go to any photography subreddit that's not already focused on nudity or sex. Any photo with naked women will get more upvotes than most other submissions. It can be an objectively bad photo, that doesn't really matter.
etra0 · a month ago
I can totally attest this.

I was an avid viewer of r/analog. I don't know if this was 'recent' or not, but every time someone post a naked picture, either good or not, it goes rapidly to Top posts.

Even though it used to had many comments like "This photo is not interesting other than the naked woman", the upvotes arrived anyway.

I think nowadays they mostly block the comments in those posts, but what used to be an inspiring subreddit that would pop from time to time in my feed, is not longer that interesting to me.

etra0 commented on We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler   blog.cloudflare.com/how-w... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
kbolino · 3 months ago
etra0 · 3 months ago
Kinda funny that it requires both "please" and "backport" for it to be considered haha.

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