We already got solutions. What’s missing is the courage and incentives to actually adopt them by political leaders and the larger public. If AI would replace our politicians maybe it could help, otherwise it’s just the latest proof that there’s plenty of money around to transform the economy into whatever we want it to be. I guess we prefer chat bots over carbon neutral.
We don’t need that many data centers, so we also don’t need to expand energy production at this scale.
Even renewables have an impact and for some reason countries love to build their solar parks in nature reserves rather than a desert. Go figure.
You gotta weigh the pros and cons for every decision. This has nothing to do with perfectionism when the cons are clearly outnumbering the pros.
Still needs to follow environmental protections and go easy on the locals. Having wind turbines everywhere just for data centers isn’t so great either.
Putting “DON’T scan your face for X.” at the very end would be even stronger.
Of course. I only needed them for larger trips so I had to plan. Charging at home for everyday use is of course superior in many ways.
The few times I’ve charged an electric rental car, I had to go pee and buy snacks or go for lunch anyway… in my opinion a longer break of a few minutes from driving is healthy and safer anyway.
I wish. Organizations and countries/municipalities are far too lazy to make the change.
Agents is just the LLM prompting itself with subtasks. This can be helpful to compartmentalize larger and more complex tasks. I find the tool calls most important. An agent that can compile and test its own code will make fewer mistakes (assuming the tests weren’t also written by LLMs but even then).
So there’s a self-correcting feedback loop that will improve quality, but is also a lot more expensive. The problem is that the temptation is huge to give more and more complex tasks to the agents and then they go off for 30min or longer and may or may not create complete and utter bullshit because something led them astray or they forgot something one agent did wrong and never fixed it. The end result may work, but it may be less efficient or come with a share of dead code that’s never called etc.
You end up with hundreds of lines to verify. You could just ask an agent to do it, but at some point adding more agents to the pile is not going to help… and probably takes longer than just reading it yourself.
This currently only works for poor people because access to skill is free right now… and we see it not working for billionaires once the financial bubble around LLMs bursts.
Not that billionaires will suddenly be poor, but someone will be holding the bag eventually. We see efforts right now that the government/taxpayers will be the ones via bailouts. This is of course unacceptable but the patriotism argument that the West needs to outcompete China may work for some.
I’m surprised it’s not more obvious. Tons of CEOs tank their companies and fail upwards into boards and other CEO positions of multi-billion dollar companies because they completely mismanaged the company but somehow rich people are geniuses?
This is also what I don’t get. At worst people start ignoring the documents or requests for review (or code changes) because they have better things to do than review generated text.
At best you push back.
It’s also illegal to produce, trade, own and in some places to use.
Yeah, I think they want boring ads like “our product is the shit. Buy it because this is what you’ve seen most and became familiar with.”
Yes, they are fundamentalists. Usually from independent churches that are far more extremist than our Protestant or Catholic ones.
There’s also a lot of anti-science sentiment, but they are usually in the anti-vaxx protests.
You’d surprised. We got these crazies protesting on a regular basis here in Switzerland. Sure, they got no power other than disturbing the public transportation, but they exist. Usually they need to be protected by huge police tricks.
Future presidents
And some of these minigun sections also don’t require you to shoot anyone. Many of these onrails sections are just an interactive cutscene with one end: you getting out in one piece
I read a retrospective from another team yesterday. They were preparing a demo for leadership and apparently it didn’t go so well. There were many reasons like last minute changes in requirements but one line was interesting for this discussion: The use of the LLM agents caused confusion about who is fixing which bug and taking on which tasks. The agents act like they’re alone in the codebase and keep adding and changing code broadly whenever they see an opportunity for improvement. And that often without specifically being prompted to do so. Now if you have multiple team members collaborating on a project with each their agents, chaos ensues because the agents are not coordinating and the diffs/commits become insane and the team doesn’t fully understand them.
This actually results in a necessity to test more and longer because nobody knows which bugs have really been fixed now and rapidly preparing for a release or a demo becomes more difficult than before.
In my opinion an LLM can be very useful to rapidly prototype something. Especially with an API or language you’re not familiar with. But for Production it’s still a huge risk to push code you don’t understand.
It keeps coming up in my circle once in a while. Usually people complaining about subscriptions. That’s your in.
Diversification helps here. Being able to switch service providers easy and quickly is best for users.
At the moment it’s good for Europeans to focus on domestic services, but in the long run our laws and governments may also turn more oppressive, so having many different reliable alternatives is the recipe for a free and empowered society.