What does any of that mean in practice? it's just rambling about abstract concepts that seem to be designed to hint at a bigger picture, when it's just getting AI to write code for you.
Is this where it's going? Having to mystify our roles so it seems like we're still the thought leaders when actually we're just becoming pseudo-teachers that try and herd our group of AI idiots to the right conclusion for us so we don't have to, without ever giving away that it's just all techno-babble?
Once you buy into the AI hype, you babble like that. Yegge is an even worse example.
tech blogs used to read like actionable readme guides. I couldn't finish it without thinking: what am I supposed to do with this information? The shelf life of the latest and greatest is about 2 weeks in the AI space. I never caught up to the ralph wiggum loop and now I'm glad I never tried.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682325
> What does any of that mean in practice?
They want you to spend more tokens
From my past experience of religion at various levels I am very often reminded of borderline-cult religious meetings, and the zeal of converts repeating gnomic oversimplifications, and of how exhausting it was to try to engage with them on any topic of substance.
My own feeling is that it is totally OK to simply route around these people.
It's fascinating how many of the "keep your identity small" folks in the YC/HN sphere have lost any sense of perspective at the first sign of a technology that wanders into the philosophical realm. AI-oriented identities are everywhere.
When someone is expected to be wizened and does not have the knowledge to keep up with the needs of those around them, they in turn become Shamanistic in their practice.
The speed of improvement on these models has been incredible and has outpaced the learning speed of humans and put many experts into these Shamanistic roles.
I think the operative means of addressing this is to recognize that we can only learn so quickly, but we are still called to improve our knowledge and understanding to a higher level. Since the improvement of these models is neither logorithmic, nor exponential, we currently occupy a space in time in which the models are currently smarter on average than we are as a collective whole.
Algorithms and data that emulate responses aren't smart.
A 5 year old knows if you want to wash your car, you need to take it to the car wash.
Can a 5 year old write a substantial program on spec, that passes the requirements and given tests, in a few minutes?
If not, then perhaps this comparison is not the be all end all.
"A ship is useless, it can't drive over land..."
But it demonstrates that LLMs struggle with basic reasoning. A criticism of LLMs is that they're imitating without a understanding of what they're doing and without a clear plan, so this inability to solve a simple logic puzzle is very relevant. If LLMs didn't struggle with reasoning problems then something like ARC-AGI wouldn't exist.
5 year olds and ai both have jagged intelligence.
also its AI not "artificial code generation intelligence" . Ship is your view of the product to shoehorn into something specific.
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Why is HN interested in management and team process discussion but allergic to similar topics on how to manage agents?
It’s like saying why discuss these team workflows when it’s just devs writing code. Or why use any jargon to describe workflows when it's just devs writing code.