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If the post drops long before the IPO, it's vain boosterism. If it's near the IPO, it's fattening the pig. If it's after the IPO, it's pumping the stock price.

Build monumental architecture and increase the size of your harem.

Spectacular use of free will.

And you couldn't make Blazing Saddles today.

Around 9T parameters, depending on quantization.

He's been vibecoding some stuff himself personally, on one of his scuba projects. You could take people as actually believing in the things they do and say.

Are you aware of how productivity has increased over the past century in general? That didn't lead to 100x wage increases or more free time. Labour is a market commodity and follows market rules. Increased productivity means more gets done in less time. It doesn't mean you spend less time working

People like checking items off of lists.

You get AIs to prove their code is correct in precisely the same ways you get humans to prove their code is correct. You make them demonstrate it through tests or evidence (screenshots, logs of successful runs).

Tao's broad project, which he has spoken about a few times, is for mathematics to move beyond the current game of solving individual theorems to being able to make statements about broad categories of problems. So not 'X property is true for this specific magma' but 'X property is true for all possible magmas', as an example I just came up with. He has experimented with this via crowdsourcing problems in a given domain on GitHub before, and I think the implications of how to use AI here are obvious.

Does a system being deterministic really matter if it's complex enough you can't predict it? How many stories are there about 'you need to do it in this specific way, and not this other specific way, to get 500x better codegen'?

If you haven't tried it yet, OpenCode is quite good.

It's an extension of how I've noticed that AIs will generally write very buttoned-down, cross-the-ts-and-dot-the-is code. Everything gets commented, every method has a try-catch with a log statement, every return type is checked, etc. I think it's a consequence of them not feeling fatigue. These things (accessibility included) are all things humans generally know they 'should' do, but there never seems to be enough time in the day; we'll get to it later when we're less tired. But the ghost in the machine doesn't care. It operates at the same level all the time

You can recognise that the technology has a poor user interface and is wrought with subtleties without denying its underlying capabilities. People misuse good technology all the time. It's kind of what users do. I would not expect a radically new form of computing which is under five years old to be intuitive to most people.

The industry is still seeing how far they can take transformers. We've yet to reach a dollar value where it stops being worth pumping money into them.

Because I'm getting paid to.

A system having terminal failure modes doesn't inherently negate the rest of the system. Human intelligences fall prey to plenty of similarly bad behaviours like addiction.

That series messed me up when I was younger.

Yeah. To me it seems very intuitive that humor is one of those emergent capabilities that just falls out of models getting more generally intelligent. Anecdotally this has been proven true so far for me. Gemini 2.5 has made me laugh several times at this point, and did so when it was intending to be funny (old models were only funny unintentionally).

2.5 is also one of the few models I've found that will 'play along' with jokes set up in the user prompt. I once asked it what IDE modern necromancers were using since I'd been out of the game for a while, and it played it very straight. Other models felt they had to acknowledge the scenario as fanciful, only engaging with it under an explicit veil of make-believe.

IIRC the guy who makes Aider (Paul Gauthier) has some videos along these lines, of him working on Aider while using Aider (how meta).

If everyone hated AI images, nobody would be creating them.

It crushes the orphans very quickly, and on command, and allows anyone to crush orphans from the comfort of their own home. Most people are low-taste enough that they don't really care about the difference between hand-crushed orphans and artisanal hand-crushed orphans.

You beat me to that idea, haha. I was making an aider for fiction, but your project looks way more useful than what I had.

All labor is bad.

If they do, then I would agree with them.

Aider has built-in functionality for this. You can pass it a command (dotnet test or whatever) and it will autorun it after AI edits. If tests fail it can paste the output into the context for you.

I regret to inform you that war does in fact happen. In fact it happens quite frequently

This is the worst kind of pedantry. There is now code in a text file that wasn't there before. It doesn't really matter to me if they code came from human fingers, an auto generator tool, an LLM or a ouija board. It looks like written code and it compiles like written code - it's written code. You can rightly criticise the use of LLMs in many ways but it is more useful to focus on the actual reasons they cause harm than to set red lines over language.

Roleplaying with robots is currently one of the bigger use-cases for LLMs, esp. across younger generations. Look at the usage stats for something like character.ai. So that is a very clear case where people want to have conversations with computers.

Pretty much where my thoughts on this are. I rarely feel any particular sense of connection to the actual author when I read their books. And I have taken great pleasure from some AI stories (to the degree I put them up on my personal website as a way to keep them around).