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Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met

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joegibbs · 1790897129 · focus · HN ↗
There's one of mine in there where I predicted in 2023 that it would be 20 years until AI would be reliably able to entirely build and deploy arbitrary applications from a prompt. I was off by about 18 years on that one!
1. BobbyTables2 · 1790909327 · focus · HN ↗
  I’m right with you there.
  It also didn’t help that for a very long time, simple adaptive filters and basic neural networks were branded as “artificial intelligence” despite having very basic capabilities and little mystery on how/why they worked in their narrow use case.
  I didn’t believe the recent hype for a very long time. But having tried out the latest models, I’m kinda shocked. In 1 minute it comprehends a complex niche code base and points out subtle errors with very little noise. A senior engineer we would have taken months to do less. Coverity would have cost dearly and generated far more false positives than substance.
  1. brokenmachine · 1790932324 · focus · HN ↗
    > In 1 minute it comprehends a complex niche code base and points out subtle errors with very little noise. A senior engineer we would have taken months to do less.
    They of course operate faster than humans, but this is hyperbole. Unless your senior engineer sucks.
    LEDThereBeLight · 1790941089 · focus · HN ↗
    I don’t know, it has taken me months to onboard onto any codebase I’ve ever worked on.

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