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by wavy-dingo 1236 days ago
I really question how impressive it would be for generating new, unknown programs. ML is based on prior knowledge, and if it hasn’t been invented before, it would get lost real quick.

I saw a chatGPT redux reducer was for a todo app. That probably has 50 examples online. The VM running inside chatGPT also has a rich set of examples to use online from people teaching Linux cli interface.

You see this with GitHub’s autopilot. Very impressive stuff for trivial things, but it breaks down quick with any complexity.

Nobody really gets paid to write trivial programs like that since whomever could just copy it.