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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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In today's episode, Yud tries to predict the future of computer science.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (11 children)

In such a (unlikely) future of build tooling corruption, actual plausible terminology:

  • Intent Annotation Prompt (though sensibly, this should be for doc and validation analysis purposes, not compilation)
  • Intent Pragma Prompt (though sensibly, the actual meaning of the code should not change, and it should purely be optimization hints)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (10 children)

a dull headache forms as I imagine a future for programming where the API docs I’m reading are still inaccurate autogenerated bullshit but it’s universal and there’s a layer of incredibly wasteful tech dedicated to tricking me into thinking what I’m reading has any value at all

the headache vastly intensifies when I consider debugging code that broke when the LLM nondeterministically applied a set of optimizations that changed the meaning of the program and the only way to fix it is to reroll the LLM’s seed and hope nothing else breaks

and the worst part is, given how much the programmers I know all seem to love LLMs for some reason, and how bad the tooling around commercial projects (especially web development) is, this isn’t even an unlikely future

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

@froztbyte @self “not ready for production use”

Implying it will ever be ready

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