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90 percent definitely passes reviews.

Source: my commits pass reviews and it's not because the reviewers don't have like 50 years of experience between them.

It's funny how the comments on HN went from complete denial about coding with LLM's ever being possible at all like 1 year ago to "oh, it might be happening" now. I find it hard to understand how people can simultaneously be skilled (older) engineers while at the same time being completely oblivious to the concept of exponential improvement of tech in general. I guess people don't WANT to see the reality that is change and prefer to just look away and cope?



Because we already are in the diminishing returns phase with relation to LLM reasoning capability - exponentials can almost always only exist for short durations.


source needed

I see 0 evidence or even hints of that.

Most of the internet was broken before LLM's and still is today. I haven't noticed it getting worse, if anything, maybe slightly better.


What is it even replying to?

My point was about LLM reasoning capability turning into a flat curve, what does it have to do with the internet?


> I guess people don't WANT to see the reality that is change and prefer to just look away and cope?

Yes. But frankly, it's hard to blame them. It's just a shitty social contract where you spend lots of time gaining skills and by the time you're done your field has been completely obsoleted.

I'm a huge fan of making comparisons to how things used to work before industrial revolution, because that's what our brains evolved for. If your father was a blacksmith, you'd be a blacksmith too, and so would be your son. It was difficult to imagine a world that simply would stop needing blacksmiths. So it's completely normal that our brains spend first 20 years learning, and once we're done learning, we just apply that knowledge to everyday life, save for minor tweaks here and there.

Then it became a requirement to keep learning your entire life because the world kept changing. This sucks, but it's not completely infeasible, so people rolled with it, especially that new positions were cozy and well-paid, and there was some gentle exit path for those who were too old to learn new things.

But now we're in a situation where the society tells you that there's huge demand for given skill, and then your entire profession gets completely obliberated before you're even halfway done with your studies. In such environment it's simply impossible to create a realistic career plan, let alone have energy for luxuries such as raising a family or maintaining social connections. This isn't good.

AI has objectively made our life worse, and everyone is completely clueless how the situation develops. Denying everything and hoping to wait things out might actually be just as good of an attitude like any other. Because honestly tell me - even if we assume the most optimistic scenario "AGI within five years" - how the fuck do I plan my career?


I am unsure but as a formal verification (pupil of dijkstra and his students in eindhoven and Amsterdam) person, I see this happening in a crazy waterfall and indeed people on HN are the last deniers who keep saying 'it does not work for them'. It works for the rest of the world and things are going completely ape shit now. I am happy to be old as I probably won't live through the fallout; I would say I hope we change our ways and redistribute the gained wealth here but it won't happen. And then we also do not learn from having terrible software ruining lives...




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