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silverlake commented on AI has a deep understanding of how this code works github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pu... · Posted by u/theresistor

pluc · a month ago

That's a fair answer. How do you stop people from doing it though? How do you stop it from becoming every lazy person's first reflex instead of every smart person's third?

silverlake · a month ago

I don’t know. But at least you’ve identified the real problem: lazy people generating trash code. AI isn’t bad, people are.

silverlake commented on AI has a deep understanding of how this code works github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pu... · Posted by u/theresistor

lawlessone · a month ago

>You can’t drop a 13k line PR you don’t understand without prior discussion.

How common was that before AI coding?

silverlake · a month ago

Enough that stacked PRs are a thing. At my job people sometimes build large features on a branch for 6 months. Then it’s a massive PR and no one can review it.

silverlake commented on AI has a deep understanding of how this code works github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pu... · Posted by u/theresistor

pluc · a month ago

To all the AI apologists here I'd like to submit a simple scenario to you and hear your answer: you use AI to create a keynote speech on a topic you needed to use AI to write. At the end of your speech, people ask you questions about the contents of your speech. What do you say?

This is the same.

silverlake · a month ago

Hi, AI apologist here. This scenario is a problem with or without AI. You can’t drop a 13k line PR you don’t understand without prior discussion. There are many ways to use AI. Your scenario (keynote speech) is a bad way to use it. Instead, a PR where you understand every line, whether you or an AI wrote it, should be fine. It would be indistinguishable from human generated code.

AI is a tool like any other. I hire a carpenter who knows how to build furniture. Whether he uses a Japanese pullsaw or a CNC machine is irrelevant to me.

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Kilenaitor · 4 months ago

I have replaced it with Eternal Terminal: https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal

But I don't know how widespread that is.

silverlake · 4 months ago

I used ET but it requires a server process also. Some machines are too locked down to allow this. Wish there was a way to kick start the server on demand.

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silverlake commented on What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes? seangoedecke.com/model-on... · Posted by u/ingve

schaefer · 4 months ago

You could train an unbeatable tic-tac-toe ai on your laptop in five minutes. It doesn’t get any stronger than that.

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I know, I know. I’m intentionally misinterpreting the OP’s clear intent (the stuff of comedy). And normally a small joke like this wouldn’t be worth the downvotes…

But, I think there’s a deeper double meaning in this brave new world of prompt engineering. Most chat isn’t all that precise without some level of assumed shared context:

These days the meaning of the phrase ai has changed from the classical definition (all algorithms welcome), and now ai usually means LLMs and their derivatives.

silverlake · 4 months ago

I’m actually working on just this. What’s the smallest training data set required to learn tic-tac-toe? A 5yo doesn’t need much training to learn a new game, but a transformer needs millions of samples.

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steveBK123 · 5 months ago

Getting work done in your apartment in NYC always feels like being extorted.

silverlake · 4 months ago

Also, most of them are shockingly incompetent. It took years to assemble a list of quality service providers. I pay a little more but stuff works now.

silverlake commented on GitHub CEO Warns Developers: "Either Embrace AI or Get Out of This Career" finalroundai.com/blog/git... · Posted by u/pjmlp

raesene9 · 5 months ago

I really don't understand why CEOs like this who are AI boosters try to justify the idea that this will create more developers, when that seems exceedingly unlikely, even if they are correct in their predictions of productivity increases.

The quote from the article "if you 10x a single developer, then 10 developers can do 100x." implies that companies have 100x the things to be developed productively, what if that isn't the case?

What if companies actually have about as many systems as they need, if you really can 10x your existing developers, then that would predicate a cut not an increase.

Of course the follow on from that, for suppliers who have per-seat licensing is that they'll need to find some other way to monetize if there are fewer seats to be sold, I guess they could start charging AI Agents as "developer seats"....

silverlake · 5 months ago

There is a mountain of code that needs to be written that can’t be due to costs. A project that needs 100 developers may be prohibitively expensive. But 10 10x developers would be within budget. Think health care, manufacturing, government, finance, etc.

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silverlake commented on Show HN: Personalized Wealth Management – Institutional Meets Consumer fulfilledwealth.co/home... · Posted by u/workworkwork71

silverlake · 6 months ago

I’ve been talking to wealth management firms and am truly underwhelmed. AFAICT, they charge 0.5%-1.35% for therapy and the chance to put you in high fee products. Roboadvisors are a brilliant product for most people. In fact, a simple Boglehead portfolio is all you need. Most people have simple and similar risk profiles.

The feature I think would be useful is how to manage taxes. Roth conversions, selling the right lot, qualified dividends, tax loss harvesting, etc. A related feature would be generating income while minimizing taxes, i.e. Schwab’s Intelligent Income.