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by fiddlerwoaroof 641 days ago
Maybe it will work out, but I think we’ll regret this experiment because it’s the wrong sort of “force accelerator”: writing tons of code that should be abstracted rather than just dumped out literally has always caused the worst messes I’ve seen.
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Yes, same way that the image model outputs have already permeated the blogosphere and pushed out some artists, the other models will all bury us under a pile of auto-generated code.

We will yearn for the pre-GPT years at some point, like we yearn for the internet of the late 90s/early 2000s. Not for a while though. We're going through the early phases of GPT today, so it hasn't been taken over by the traditional power players yet.