Real world experience can help, but what we have now is also too stupid to recognize when it’s succeeding or failing. It just greedily gobbles up inputs and feedback indiscriminately.
There’s currently no way to know if the necessary advancement, to advance independently of humans, is 2 years or 2000 years away.
Even so, nature tells us that advancement probably isn’t coming at all. It’s not needed, so long as there are billions of humans available to partner with.
Makes sense. Google has been replacing skilled engineers with tail-eating AI regurgitation engines, which are getting progressively worse as they eat their own shit.
But I’ve been told those regurgitation engines are about to get really smart and replace all skilled labor.
So maybe it’ll be fine.
Or maybe, as we’ve already started to see, more and more useful stuff will only be available via the Internet wayback machine, until they kill it.
I’m actually a beautiful woman. They will both have to agree to substantial surgeries before they agree to play me.
David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, with a made-up face surgery scene mid-film to explain the change.
Earth, obviously. Or rather, where we think we left it…
Bare minimum place to start: See if you can get the team to agree that these documents should exist in every project root folder:
Stretch goal: pick a spot (readme is fine) and make a list of sources (data in) and sinks (data out). Include contact information for whoever can reset the credentials or fix the firewall.
I figured out how to remove most of the safeguards from some AI models.
Nice.
How do you feel about this?
It’s another kind of power. I try to use mine responsibly, but also to give myself a break when I don’t meet my own standards.
Some good advice I got once was that it’s impossible to “un-say” something, so it pays to think twice before speaking.
If your gut is telling you to pause, listen to it. Wait to move forward until you feel better about it.
As someone else pointed out, responsible disclosure is an option.
You also have the option to just quietly enjoy a better copy of the AI than others have.
If you decide to publish your discoveries, be aware that others will judge you for how you go about it. For me that means the two options are responsibly, or anonymously.
It sounds like you may be ready to Obey The Testing Goat
I’ll bet people said the same thing when Intellisense started suggesting lines completions.
They did.
And when errors were highlighted in the code rather than console output.
Yep.
And when high-level languages started appearing.
And yes.
That said, if you believed my mentors, we were barelling towards a 2025 in which nothing running on software ever really worked reliably.
So they may have been grumpy, but they were also right, on that point.
Some other good answers already but here’s a sound byte version:
It’s currently expensive to borrow money, and then the borrowed money isn’t as useful as it used to be.
Ditto. I use Go for this kind of thing.
If YAML and JSON were gripping my hands for dear life, dangling off of a cliff…
I would let both drop into the abyss so I could spend more time with INI.
would Python really be better if it switched to braces?
Yes. A thousand times, yes.
That is amazing.
I don’t know what I just read.
If my website ever gets married, I’m going to invite this website to stand next to it as a bridesmaid - because it makes my website look pretty by comparison.
C# is only good as a scripting language in my usecase, and sometimes you want “hard-code” new features, not script them.
My recent experience with C# suggests you might have a much better time with it, than you think.
C#'s compile phases are nuanced and achieve surprisingly quick results, now.
If it’s been awhile since you used C#, you could be happily surprised.
Well said.
Here I am trying to wind people up and you’re responding with thoughtful nuanced consideration.
You make some great points.
I’ll add - for folks reading along - I do think a class is still almost always an anti-pattern, even with all the OOP class function and factory pattern stuff removed.
I also feel (as you referenced):
And also:
State data is a necessary evil in most programs.
I’ve found that most advanced class object implementations treat program state data more like a pet than a threat.
Sorry for the long response - I know you don’t need it - you know what kind of tool you’re looking for.
I figure they extra detail above might provide food for thought for folks reading along who are surprised there’s even contrasting opinions on classes.
(And I feel a little bad for not really posting anything very useful earlier in the thread.)
It amuses me that someone downvoted classes suck.
It’s an objectively true fact.
Today I learned GoLang has no class.
Neat! Thanks. Sincerely.
I’ve been coding casually in GoLang for years without noticing. (I don’t use classes, because classes suck.)
Apparently GoLang does at least have interfaces, which are like classes that don’t suck. That’s probably why I didn’t notice.
Shit. I didn’t think this through well enough. Can I change my answer to yours?