Yeah what you say makes sense to me. Having it make a “wrong start” in something new is useful, as it gives you a lot of the typical structure, introduces the terminology, maybe something sorta moving that you can see working before messing with it, etc.

This was a very directed experiment at purely LLM written maintainable code.

Writing experiments and proof of concepts, even without skill, will give a different calculation and can make more sense.

Having it write a “starting point” and then take over, also is a different thing that can make more sense. This requires a coder with skill, you can’t skip that.

I’ve been coding for a while. I did an honest eager attempt at making a real functioning thing with all code written by AI. A breakout clone using SDL2 with music.

The game should look good, play good, have cool effects, and be balanced. It should have an attractor screen, scoring, a win state and a lose state.

I also required the code to be maintainable. Meaning I should be able to look at every single line and understand it enough to defend its existence.

I did make it work. And honestly Claude did better than expected. The game ran well and was fun.

But: The process was shit.

I spent 2 days and several hundred dollars to babysit the AI, to get something I could have done in 1 day including learning SDL2.

Everything that turned out well, turned out well because I brought years of skill to the table, and could see when Claude was coding itself into a corner and tell it to break up code in modules, collate globals, remove duplication, pull out abstractions, etc. I had to detect all that and instruct on how to fix it. Until I did it was adding and re-adding bugs because it had made so much shittily structured code it was confusing itself.

TLDR; LLM can write maintainable code if given full constant attention by a skilled coder, at 40% of the coder’s speed.

No way to know for sure based on this. If you used any app that “works with” WhatsApp in any way, you could be affected.

Liar

The bullshit machine is outputting untruths?

The bullshit machine owned, trained and operated by nazis is outputting untruths with a nazi agenda?

Oh no how could this happen.

Hades 2

An economic bubble isn’t when something is fake and ceases to exist when the bubble bursts.

We use the term when the market is inflated way beyond its value.

A bubble bursting is when people realize the market is inflated way beyond its value and pull out, leaving debt-ridden companies to their debt.

Some go bankrupt, stock prices fall, economy news outlets insist nobody could have predicted this, investments go elsewhere, people are laid off, and the people responsible fail upward to another grift.

Wait, you’re surprised it did what you asked of it?

No. Stop making things up to complain about. Or at least leave me out of it.

I tried the image of this real actual road collapse: https://www.tv2.no/nyheter/innenriks/60-mennesker-isolert-etter-veiras/12875776

I told ChatGPT it was fake and asked it to explain why. It assured me I was a special boy asking valid questions and helpfully made up some claims.

The devs were not told what needed to change even after asking, so they tried to remove anything that they suspected could be taken the wrong way, asked for reconsideration or clarification, but receive no response.

The game being banned for a misunderstood piece of placeholder concept art in a Steam approval preview build, which was both removed, and explained. Then Valve refusing to reconsider it and rejecting all attempts to clarify their objections.

Looks like it has triggered someone’s “we can’t be seen backing down!” reflex at Valve

The fucking lunacy of the AI bros he lists as examples…

Heyyyy! Who switched the labels on the pods?

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Now who’s going to clean up Gene?

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And explain it to his family?

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Rob, can you show up to Gene’s wedding pretending to be him while we figure this out?

Please step into the Science to be cleansed, human

Be careful. Don’t get too close to the psychosis machine.

The energy requirements for storing one ton of co2 are many many times higher than the energy gained from generating one ton of co2 (by oil, gas, coal or biofuel).

So each MWh spent “storing co2” would be ten times more efficient if used to offset oil extraction to get one MWh less out in the first place.

This is wasteful greenwashing. If it wasn’t, we’d have broken physics on the level of making perpetual motion machines.

I have briefly scanned the headline and am ready to share my immediate opinion on this significant political issue that I did zero research on. Where do I put it?