GPerson

Is anthropic paying you guys for all this free advertising dang? This is pathetic.

It’s not.

Novels are fiction by the way.

Anyone willing to put Ghibli themed AI slop on their page has nothing to share about truth, unless their truth is that management is fundamentally unethical.

That proof has almost no significance because the average mathematician cannot spend 2 million dollars on inference.

And it’s just a copy of notepad from windows xp.

Did you come up with that? If so, bravo!

You can try. What happens is it cheats you at every turn and finally admits it wasn’t testing anything when you ask why it’s still broken.

Yes, this actually happens.

Rigorously designing and understanding the system does not sound like what you were referring to in the original post.

All of my heroes always said the difficult part is not in the writing of the code, but in the reading/understanding of it.

The step you describe is the main use case I’ve found where vibe coding actually makes sense. Going from there to actually make a good version of the thing then becomes more hands on.

I’ve done a lot of vibe coding and I just can’t understand these takes. Pure vibe coding is not going to get you to a good result, so the alchemist you describe is still very much essential, and as far as I can see will be for a very long time.

I agree. Vibe coding eventually just becomes repetitively QA testing the work of a bad engineer.

“It's redundant to say "I think" at any point in an opinion piece.”

“But is there still value in human produced writing? Subjectively, yes. Objectively? I'm not sure. I think there's a lot of personal value in writing though.”

There is value because I felt compelled to engage, but if it turns out you’re a bot then I’ll feel cheated and less likely to read other blog posts.

I found this to be a disturbing read. Do not recommend.

It definitely has its amazing moments, but sometimes I get caught in a loop of expecting it to do the thing, it not working, and spinning my wheels a lot instead of just solving it myself. I think I’m still learning how to use the tools effectively, but the random nature of it makes it difficult.

So your stance is that it is impossible to create a simulated intelligence which is not conscious? That seems like the less likely possibility to me.

I do think it’s clearly possible to manufacture a conscious mind.

The more I interact with these the less I’m afraid these tools will make life meaningless. (Can’t speak on art generation tools. Those still depress me.) It doesn’t matter what you’re making there are still a lot of hard parts even with the best versions of these tools. I doubt a good software developer can be replaced totally unless these get way better.

The best use cases are for code that’s clearly not an end product. You can just try way more ideas and get a sense of which are likely to pan out. That is tremendously valuable. When I start reading the code they produce, I quickly find many ways I would have written it differently though.

So you’re not buying the idea that with increased productivity those tools will quickly follow?

Have you tried claude code? I despise AI to my bones but even I can’t say claude code is not impressive.

If any anthropic reps read this, I think you guys, while probably better than open AI and meta, possibly Google, are delusional and are more likely to destroy the world than create infinite human life.

Reddit is partially owned by Sam Altman and they have deals with llm companies to sell the data. The content has been and will continue to be grabbed by everyone who can pay.

This crowd would sooner believe silicon hardware (an arbitrary human invention from the 50s-60s) will have the physical properties required for consciousness than accept that they participate in torturing literally a hundred billion consciousness animals every year.

My principled stance is that all known physical processes depend on particular physical processes and consciousness should be no different. What is yours?

Consciousness is a physical process and like all physical processes depends on particular material interactions.

I’m actually a vegan because I believe cows have consciousness. I believe consciousness is the only trait worth considering when applying morality questions. Arbitrary hardware is conscious.

Would it crash if AI advances in a way which makes massive compute unnecessary? That’s an interesting possibility I wonder about.

AGI will behave as if it were sentient but will not have consciousness. I believe in that to an equal amount that I believe solipsism is wrong. There is therefore no morality question in “enslaving” AGI. It doesn’t even make sense.

Kinda curious on what jblow would say about this.

Hope this happens to Altman’s data centers.

I’m surprised you can detect that TikTok but AI is societally terrible but are still optimistic about AI. Why is that? As a technical point, AI can already be used on TikTok, and every other platform, so whatever societal terror is coming from Sora 2 already exists due to AI.

I’m looking forward to the day when magical thinking such as this gets grounded again. That is when the real work will start anew.

Fast / slow mode breaks “Space Invader” by the way.