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1. noelwelsh · 1791143352 · focus · HN ↗

   This rhetoric (and it is rhetoric, in that it is designed to persuade) too often lacks nuance. Generating a 3 minute stand alone video is impressive, but it is a different task from generating code that must be consistent with an existing mountain of code. Generating code that implements a straightforward feature within an existing system is different to generating code that must make architectural decisions in novel domain or with a novel architecture. The Navier-Stokes result is impressive but 1) they spent a bajillion tokens / currency units to achieve it and 2) AFAIK all the recent mathematics results have been counterexamples, which are a different beast to proofs.

   My own experience, pootling around with Claude like a peasant, is that it is simultaneously amazing at some tasks and an absolute moron at others. The more abstract the reasoning required, the worse it is.

   1. lowbloodsugar · 1791144269 · focus · HN ↗

      Yeah, I work on secure networking libraries and AI does things that compile but void the security whenever I give it free rein. But it seems that for boring management shit, stuff that I, an autistic recluse, really prefer to avoid, it’s great.

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