jkf
19hr ago
American problems need American solutions, certainly; Trump is not the man for this job, I propose Larry Fink.
jkf
21hr ago
No worries, the two white dudes are practically Buzz Lightyear from central casting! And they only have to get the woman in proximity of the moon AIUI; piece of cake.
jkf
21hr ago
Simple solution -- elect a leader who has been a globalist neo-con since before it was cool, and coincidentally owns a podbuilding company; et voila:
Non-pod based houses can remain as a Veblen item, and the useless eaters can be happy in their pods; what could go wrong?
jkf
22hr ago
If it's all hype, it is the mother of all hype cycles and something that approaches a mass movement of hysteria. This would be outright falsehoods and lying on a level usually reserved for North Korean heads of state and Subsaharan cult leaders.
Or, like -- every western government except maybe Sweden, 4 years ago?
I'm not really kidding, but to engage with the meat of your argument -- translating natural language documentation to machine code is literally what programming is, and always has been.
If you have perfect documentation, the coding is trivial; so if LLMs can add another layer to this and become essentially a somewhat easier/more efficient programming language, that's great -- but it doesn't so far seem like they are particularly good at generating that documentation based on (complex, real-life) non-technical enduser requirements for broad problems. Which has been the Hard Problem of Programming at least since Fred Brooks.
If a programmer can say to an LLM "hey build me a Salesforce clone based on such-and-such requirements" and make it happen, that is a pretty big efficiency gain, but not really AI. Which would be a pointy-haired boss saying "hey build me this thing I thought of that doesn't currently exist, but is Salesforce scale" and making it happen; this would be kind of scary.
Perhaps -- "President Fink" is a little too good to pass up though.
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