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1. ben_w · 1790877906 · focus · HN ↗

   Very pleased one of my predictions was totally wrong: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23252711">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23252711

   Sure, sure, what LLMs make still isn&#x27;t &quot;efficient bug-free code&quot;: my prediction is falsified because while LLMs can write and train new models with machine learning, ML is fundamentally not advanced enough to throw arbitraty new tasks at like this.

   1. FabCH · 1790878254 · focus · HN ↗

      Somewhat appropriate the site the OP links to is called „goalposts“ because as far as I can see, people keep shifting theirs.

      In your case, the comment you link to says „business tasks“ and you expanded it now to „arbitrary new tasks“. Those are not the same. An LLM today sure can do many many many business-speak conversion tasks.

      1. Dylan16807 · 1790879390 · focus · HN ↗

         You can&#x27;t ignore the rest of the sentence. &quot;every other task their business does&quot; &quot;everyone will be out of a job&quot;

         This means it has to handle basically all business tasks, so &quot;arbitrary&quot;. I&#x27;m not sure what percent you have in mind by &quot;many many many&quot; but I would say it can&#x27;t code half the things you need in an efficient and minimally buggy way.

         1. FabCH · 1790884431 · focus · HN ↗

            What code does a village vet clinic need? In all seriousness.

            Even IF they need code, they need at best a CRUD app to track patients, that&#x27;s it. There is no way Fable or Opus 5.5 can&#x27;t one-shot a village vet clinic app in 30 minutes, and only with &quot;I need a village vet clinic app&quot; as a prompt, and whatever questions it decides to ask along the way with it&#x27;s &quot;ask user&quot; tool.

            Or a florist, to use the example from a sibling comment.

            Code is tiny part of &quot;business&quot;.

            1. ben_w · 1790884891 · focus · HN ↗

               &gt; What code does a village vet clinic need? In all seriousness.

               Automated diagnostics, pharmacist, surgical robot, something to express anal glands without harming the patient.

               Dog-English machine translation.

               1. pixl97 · 1790900047 · focus · HN ↗

                  And they pay a lot for a CRM that keeps track of pets, vaccinations, appointments, x-ray images, tests and charts, and pet deaths and sending information out to text or mail.

                  I did support for around 15 independent vet clinics in the past.

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