Have you used GenAI for art? It can do a reasonable job for the entire composition, but the extra fine detail have to be inpainted with specific prompts, and there are special routines that make sure faces and hands look human.

The same with code. It can outline the entire project but details need to be inpainted and specific errors handled.

The context window can’t handle an entire codebase, never mind multiple projects.

Cory Doctorow wrote a pretty entertaining book on the subject of tech vs politics.

https://craphound.com/attacksurface/

Also it’s well researched

https://pavelanni.github.io/attack-surface-tech/attack-surface-tech.html

It also means we don’t have to obey the law

Not true. Even pre ICE. Law enforcement is allowed to lie to you, but you cannot lie to them. The playing field is not level.

That was temporary tourettes (self diagnosed)

Dunno. Asking 10 humans at random to do a task and probably one will do it better than AI. Just not as fast.

That looks better. Even with a fair coin, 10 heads in a row is almost impossible.

And if you are feeding the output back into a new instance of a model then the quality is highly likely to degrade.

No the chances of being wrong 10x in a row are 2%. So the chances of being right at least once are 98%.

Very fair comment. In my experience even increasing the temperature you get stuck in local minimums

I was just trying to illustrate how 70% failure rates can still be useful.

About 0.02

Run something with a 70% failure rate 10x and you get to a cumulative 98% pass rate. LLMs don’t get tired and they can be run in parallel.

Think of AI as a hard working, arrogant, knowledgeable, unimaginative junior intern.

The vibe coding is great for small, self contained tasks. It doesn’t scale to a codebase (yet?).

Thanks. I wasn’t familiar with the abbreviation and of course Google offered no insights.

What is SKG?

What’s “short” about the short-sightedness, though?

Gamepass attacks the developers, not the consumers.

The only part of the gamepass that is monopolistic is the friends network it creates.

Upgrading a computer is very different to adding a new sensor array all around the body.

I’m not saying upgrading older cars the only reason for excluding lidar, but I bet it was a large factor.

This statement works from anyone’s PoV.

Technical debt.

If you promise self driving on all cars, but cars already on the road don’t have lidar then no car has lidar.

I believe what you say. I don’t believe that is what the article is saying.

I’m not attacking philosophical arguments between the 1950s and the 1980s.

I’m pointing out that the claim that consciousness must form inside a fleshy body is not supported by any evidence.