adamsb6 21 hours ago

Why are we wasting resources hosting countless replicas of alt.tv.simpsons?

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boxed a day ago

If you think this is what LLMs are, then you are a bit behind the times. Opus 4.5 is a huge step up. The previous generation was good for starting basic hobby projects, now we can do pretty big time-consuming changes with it.

I have been extremely skeptical and dismissive of LLMs for a long time, but after a certain level of improvement you have to realize that at least for programming the advantages are substantial.

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  • ErroneousBosh 21 hours ago

    Okay, that's great. LLMs offer no benefit though.

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    • boxed 20 hours ago

      Ok, let's take it this way:

      What evidence could convince you there is some benefit?

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      • ErroneousBosh 15 hours ago

        Well, what would those benefits be? I genuinely don't see what it's useful for.

        From what I've seen, people spend an inordinate amount of time typing in "prompts", and the chatbot goes off and pretends to generate some code, and then the people have to work out what's wrong with it and type in another prompt.

        So it looks like the humans get to do all the slow, time-consuming drudge work of typing stuff in and debugging the result, but the chatbot does the interesting part.

        Why would I voluntarily just do the drudge work?

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Joel_Mckay a day ago

Borrowing state money that ultimately indentures a country with over-engineered massive boondoggle projects.

That regulatory capture con strangled more emerging economies than most like to admit. =3

"The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics" (Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith)

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  • gruez 21 hours ago

    >Borrowing state money that ultimately indentures a country with over-engineered massive boondoggle projects.

    The datacenters of Meta, Google, Amazon, etc. are primarily funded by the government?

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    • Joel_Mckay 21 hours ago

      Do they get tax breaks, subsidy, loan deals, and naive non-voting investor money?

      My point was these folks never gamble with their own cash from revenue. It is always the tax payer that ends up holding the gamblers debts. =3

      https://www.usdebtclock.org/

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      • gruez 16 hours ago

        >Do they get tax breaks

        The government also has "tax breaks" for certain foods and my 401k. Does that make my evening meal and retirement plan "state money funded" as well?

        > loan deals, and naive non-voting investor money?

        Well?

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        • Joel_Mckay 16 hours ago

          Indeed, every US child is now born -$108,000 in national debt due to the behavior of their parents.

          The classic boondoggle state funded "big" projects have bankrupted many economies. Inflation corrected, people can expect $0.84 back for every dollar they now put into retirement plans. =3

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