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its just as likely hallucinations will only get worse because their source data will be riddled with hallucinations

I don’t know how to feel about HN thinking one of the greatest artist of all time produced slop. You guys really think Leonardo davinci was drawing ladies with 6 fingers before the Mona Lisa?

I assure the worst of Shakespeares work is far beyond anything most writers can produce, much less the incoherent slop LLMs generate

How much slop you figure Shakespeare produced?

Yeah one thing people aren’t really grasping with a generative AI is that it fundamentally can’t produce the same thing twice. You can’t really create top notch art with all kinds of inconsistencies

Everybody has a price - Kim Jung un

Socialism capitalism, history shows basically all human systems devolve into corruption regardless of how sound the underlying concepts are.

Which I’m surprised people don’t point out more. What does it matter which system is the best when at the end of the day the powerful people are going to make back room deals to subvert it and that always leads to a feedback loop

I don’t know where all these people work that think simulating production load is easy

I think the same, we are headed for the tech version of the Dark Ages, all with feudalism. The corporations will be the feudal lords, because they have more capital than most of the countries in the world.

I'm just wondering how will conflict and fighting for resources play out during this time. Will the corporations simply hire military groups with their infinite money?

Famous last words.

There will be 0 production grade solutions in the next months, I guarantee it

AI will simply code you into an architectural corner where you can’t get out of without a refactor.

I don’t know how any engineer can claim this. Is this guy even reviewing his “output”?

You have to take a lot of these comments on this site with a grain of salt. These guys are not pushing out stuff they are professionally liable for.

postgres is as wide as the ocean when it comes to features. Without any specifics of what you're looking for, theres not much to suggest.

Competitors … in open source?

I predict any project that allows AI will slowly degrade in quality

Is it though? Gains have been marginal and one of the major weak points is working on complex software

So you didn’t read the article?

I think even Microsoft has abandoned SQL Server and spends more time improving their various Postgres Azure offerings. Their last major version release since 2022 added some AI features and thats it.

As a DBA, who does a lot of very heavy DBA like stuff, Postgres is in another league from SQL Server. Because Postgres is linux native and open source, its flexibility, introspection and operability, just doesnt have a comparison in SQL Server.

IMO, in the current tech landscape. SQL Server is essentially dead. Only companies using it are legacy windows shops which there are fewer and fewer of.

This is a refreshing perspective because recently I feel like I’m surrounded by people who think they can effectively implement complex software, just by hammering the best models.

It has been hard to explain that they are in fact just creating toy versions and there is no way they can do it without learning the underlying architecture. But they just keep going wasting 100s of dollars , lost in a sea of bugs

define better

slop will never have substance

SSNv6. It will take 20 years for a 50% migration

You really believe food, gas and house prices are not increasing at the same amount?

Some day we will look back and think about how dumb we were to allow them to lie to us about what inflation really is

Promotions material isn’t a medium for scientific rigor

I feel like even that scenario is far-fetched. Was Computer cost so high any department trying to analyze data at this national scale is going to go bankrupt.

There are some places doing it right, but they already were.

Could you be more specific what "right" is?

I can't even say it usually doesn't work out long term because I worked with a lot of guys who did this and took a ton of Adderall while working practically around the clock. Every incentive structure in the organizations rewarded it along with social credibility from more junior engineers. (The last cowboy I worked with who pulled this shit ended up becoming the most senior engineer in the company, a multi-millionaire and worshipped like a god by 90% of the mostly fresh grads we were hiring).

I'm having a tough time believing this, it sounds like you're trying to backwards rationalize more productive engineers were "on drugs" and they delivered but "did it wrong"

Our only hope is to start communicating like DevOps Borat

We are entering the new dark ages, where science and logic take a back seat to power and force.

It will certainly pass, I’m about 50-100 years after untold suffering to anyone who is not upper class

hardware costs must come down or every consumer segment is going to be renting, not owning, everything.

Is this not exactly what companies want

Honestly, after years of seeing this play out, a lot of devs really lack the judgement to know when something is good enough to deliver and will endlessly delay projects to “ do the right thing”

The irony being that the majority of the American population doesn’t work out or cook

What in the world are you working on?

I don’t think there’s a single person out there that will ‘support’ AI

Maybe it’s just your phrasing but people will only pay for what works, no one is loony enough to support a trillion dollar industry out of the kindness of their heart or spirit of innovation