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barotalomey | 11 months ago | on: AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem

> If anything, LLMs have surprised at much better they are than humans in understanding instructions for text based activities.

That's demonstrateably false, as proven by both OpenAI's own research [1] and endless independent studies by now.

What is fascinating is how some people cling on false ideas about what LLM is and isnt.

Its a recurring fallacy that's bound to get it's own name any time soon.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43155825

barotalomey | 11 months ago | on: AI 2027

> and you have not provided arguments to that effect

The burden of proof lies on those with extraordinary claims. I am simply skeptical.

barotalomey | 11 months ago | on: AI 2027

You meant to say that people's expectations have shifted. That's expected seeing the amount of hype this tech gets.

Hype affects market value tho, not reality.

barotalomey | 11 months ago | on: Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age

> The gap between Sr and Jr skills with close as AI gets better.

Sorry, but as the wind blows, we only have indications of the opposite so far and it's wildly reported as a generating losing their ability for deep thought, relying too much on automated code generation. This is especially damaging for juniors, who never get the chance to learn the tricks of the trade in the first place, and they're the ones having a hard time explaining what the code the LLM generated even does.

Seniors will be few and far between, and we will charge premium for fixing up the crap LLM created, which will fit us great before retirement.

Good luck when we are retired.

barotalomey | 11 months ago | on: AI 2027

It's always "soon" for these guys. Every year, the "soon" keeps sliding into the future.

barotalomey | 11 months ago | on: Ask HN: Code should be stored in a database. Who has tried this?

> To me it seems obvious that code should be stored in a database rather than a hierarchical, text-based format.

So, granted a filesystem does exhibit CRUD, and hierarchical relations, it's already a relational database.

I take this as you are arguing about the utility of a text based format?

barotalomey | 11 months ago | on: Win98-quickinstall: A framework and installer to quickly install Windows 98

Win98SE was the final usable Win9x version and the most stable version of them all.

There's a crapload of late 90s / early 00s Windows games that isnt compatible with modern Windows, so running or emulating Win9X is really the only way of accessing them.

If you are doing Win9X today, you would only be using Win98SE or you're doing it wrong.

And let's not mention Windows Millenium again.

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