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Running 4d ↳ AI Backlash Widens as Congress Weighs a 'Kill Switch' for Rogue Models

Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak

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  • Steaks require very few skills. Buy 10 steaks, some oil, a pan, and a heat source. By the time you've cooked the 10th steak you will be able to cook a decent steak.Software requires a massive amount of skill. You can't say you can build "consistently good software" after writing your 10th program. Most software engineers really aren't great at…

    0xbadcafebeeHacker News4d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • Almost No Skill Required to Cook a Steak (Though You Probably Can't Make a Decent One) https:// blog.sydorets.com/en/posts/alm ost-no-skill-required-to-cook-a-steak/

    igorkulman@hachyderm.ioMastodon · fosstodon.org18h agoview on Mastodon ↗

  • I do not appreciate when authors use the royal "we" to speak for all software engineers when admitting to low quality-control standards.I suspect that it is an attempt to broach an uncomfortable topic through vulnerable self-disclosure, but we need to be serious about admitting when there is a problem somewhere."Bugs" are not any more cute or…

    xtajvHacker News4d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • I take the point, but I think the author picked a poor analogy. Cooking even an excellent steak is actually not that hard. In fact, I'd argue that it's among the easiest things to master/make at a top level quality at home. Does it require some modicum of attention and understanding? Sure. But starting with a high quality cut, owning a…

    MostlyStableHacker News4d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • I hope and believe that some great companies and teams will use LLMs to build higher quality software.We built Electron because writing UIs using native desktop frameworks is tough. Is it still tough? Surely LLMs make it easier to use and so we will end up with faster and more native feeling applications.What about having a couple of ideas of what…

    dom96Hacker News4d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • >And what do we want?>We want the perfect steak.This premise seems incorrect. SWEs may aspire to produce perfect steaks as a matter of pride, but demand asks for mass produced steaks that trade off against other factor like time and cost.There is a reason github isn't full of nasa lunar lander quality this can't crash code...

    HavocHacker News4d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • Either my brain is cooked or this is AI generated/assisted text.The problem is I can no longer tell the difference between AI and non-AI writing. Maybe my brain got bad, maybe everyone now writes like AI writes.I no longer know.

    fnoefHacker News4d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • This stuff should have some warning tag: rando's musings about LLMs. Lately, whenever I think I found an interesting article it turns out to be this.

    igiveupHacker News4d agoview on Hacker News ↗

  • God dammit I thought this was going to teach me how to cook a steak, not talk about AI.

    asdfman123Hacker News4d agoview on Hacker News ↗

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