Man it’s embarrassing that they had AI write that for them
Yes I do, when I’m forming my own opinion. You do too.
So was your motivation for being a software engineer just money?
yes but the mention of alignment is inside the "pacing within democracies" section
Because for many people, building stuff with AI isn't enjoyable
I think this might be true, but I think it's because it's more difficult to saturate my thinking capacity when building with AI rather than just laziness (which I am reading as the implication of your comment, perhaps…
Huh, I like using my mind. The thing I despise about AI in software engineering is that it is much more difficult to engage my mind consistently and fully.
He did actually specify that diffusion should be limited for authoritarian countries, which I appreciated. If his focus is really safety, distillation in countries that are bound by safety regulation should be fine
Why? I am only excited about progress that improves life for humans. It seems unlikely that AI will do that, and so far I think it has made life worse for humans. So no, I am not excited about it.
What in the world? I’ve built a thing by hand before and enjoyed the process of doing it. I don’t think I’m unique in that. I’ve also built many things with AI and enjoyed them much less. I think the reason so many…
This doesn’t really seem obvious to me at all. It seems to me that skills overall are being devalued, and so then will be teachers (even more than they already are). Why do you think this?
> The people who are happy about this change, are those who would answer a programmer's job is to produce value. This is sort of meaningless; the purpose of _every_ job is to produce value. The reason I chose to be a…
Yes, certainly, in a year I’ll be better. But in the meantime…? 3 years ago it would be understandable for me to take my time with the tasks I’m doing because they are complex. Now it would be unreasonable for me to…
What do you suggest these people do instead? I’ve been frustrated by this recently: I pivoted to a new subfield and am working on stuff that I would love to dive deep into and really learn what is going on so I can…
It’s Boris Cherny, in charge of Claude code, so probably not
It isn’t really by their nature that they don’t give repeatable results, right? They’re just a bunch of math, but they perform better with randomness injected so we choose do to so. (I’ve heard about some GPU compute…
LLM prompts definitely don’t feel like “writing” to me in the way that writing a blog post (or even an HN comment) does or writing code used to. There is nothing to work out, you don’t really need to think. You’re…
But this is the same with coding. The reason that AI can write code from a description that is shorter than the output is in large part because it makes decisions about the behavior that were unspecified in your prompt.…
Oh sorry I forgot some people chose to subscribe to that disgusting name for the DoD
That’s what I like about it. I think we could use a little more of that.
I hardly see how the Dow Jones in relevant here, that’s finance
Because every single application rebuilds their own operating system
Not great
I don’t think they were complaining about literally flipping tabs but rather just needing to context switch so often. This doesn’t sound like it helps with that.
Or, in the case of X, into the outside of the wall of the garden with no way through
Man it’s embarrassing that they had AI write that for them
Yes I do, when I’m forming my own opinion. You do too.
So was your motivation for being a software engineer just money?
yes but the mention of alignment is inside the "pacing within democracies" section
Because for many people, building stuff with AI isn't enjoyable
I think this might be true, but I think it's because it's more difficult to saturate my thinking capacity when building with AI rather than just laziness (which I am reading as the implication of your comment, perhaps…
Huh, I like using my mind. The thing I despise about AI in software engineering is that it is much more difficult to engage my mind consistently and fully.
He did actually specify that diffusion should be limited for authoritarian countries, which I appreciated. If his focus is really safety, distillation in countries that are bound by safety regulation should be fine
Why? I am only excited about progress that improves life for humans. It seems unlikely that AI will do that, and so far I think it has made life worse for humans. So no, I am not excited about it.
What in the world? I’ve built a thing by hand before and enjoyed the process of doing it. I don’t think I’m unique in that. I’ve also built many things with AI and enjoyed them much less. I think the reason so many…
This doesn’t really seem obvious to me at all. It seems to me that skills overall are being devalued, and so then will be teachers (even more than they already are). Why do you think this?
> The people who are happy about this change, are those who would answer a programmer's job is to produce value. This is sort of meaningless; the purpose of _every_ job is to produce value. The reason I chose to be a…
Yes, certainly, in a year I’ll be better. But in the meantime…? 3 years ago it would be understandable for me to take my time with the tasks I’m doing because they are complex. Now it would be unreasonable for me to…
What do you suggest these people do instead? I’ve been frustrated by this recently: I pivoted to a new subfield and am working on stuff that I would love to dive deep into and really learn what is going on so I can…
It’s Boris Cherny, in charge of Claude code, so probably not
It isn’t really by their nature that they don’t give repeatable results, right? They’re just a bunch of math, but they perform better with randomness injected so we choose do to so. (I’ve heard about some GPU compute…
LLM prompts definitely don’t feel like “writing” to me in the way that writing a blog post (or even an HN comment) does or writing code used to. There is nothing to work out, you don’t really need to think. You’re…
But this is the same with coding. The reason that AI can write code from a description that is shorter than the output is in large part because it makes decisions about the behavior that were unspecified in your prompt.…
Oh sorry I forgot some people chose to subscribe to that disgusting name for the DoD
That’s what I like about it. I think we could use a little more of that.
I hardly see how the Dow Jones in relevant here, that’s finance
Because every single application rebuilds their own operating system
Not great
I don’t think they were complaining about literally flipping tabs but rather just needing to context switch so often. This doesn’t sound like it helps with that.
Or, in the case of X, into the outside of the wall of the garden with no way through