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abdullin | 8 months ago

Exactly!

This is why there has to be "write me a detailed implementation plan" step in between. Which files is it going to change, how, what are the gotchas, which tests will be affected or added etc.

It is easier to review one document and point out missing bits, than chase the loose ends.

Once the plan is done and good, it is usually a smooth path to the PR.

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bayindirh|8 months ago

So you can create a more buggy code remixed from scraped bits from the internet which you don't understand, but somehow works rather than creating a higher quality, tighter code which takes the same amount of time to type? All the while offloading all the work to something else so your skills can atrophy at the same time?

Sounds like progress to me.

abdullin|8 months ago

Here is another way to look at the problem.

There is a team of 5 people that are passionate about their indigenous language and want to preserve it from disappearing. They are using AI+Coding tools to:

(1) Process and prepare a ton of various datasets for training custom text-to-speech, speech-to-text models and wake word models (because foundational models don't know this language), along with the pipelines and tooling for the contributors.

(2) design and develop an embedded device (running ESP32-S3) to act as a smart speaker running on the edge

(3) design and develop backend in golang to orchestrate hundreds of these speakers

(4) a whole bunch of Python agents (essentially glorified RAGs over folklore, stories)

(5) a set of websites for teachers to create course content and exercises, making them available to these edge devices

All that, just so that kids in a few hundred kindergartens and schools would be able to practice their own native language, listen to fairy tales, songs or ask questions.

This project was acknowledged by the UN (AI for Good programme). They are now extending their help to more disappearing languages.

None of that was possible before. This sounds like a good progress to me.

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