[photonthug]

Like it says in tfa, it’s frustrating how we can never seem to move past anecdotes and “but did you try <insert flavor of the week>” and if you’re lucky, benchmarks that may or may not be scams.

10x, 20x etc productivity boosts really should be easy to see. My favorite example of this is the idea of porting popular things like media wiki/wordpress to popular things like Django/rails. Charitable challenge right, since there’s lots of history / examples, and it’s more translation than invention. What about porting large well known code bases from c to rust, etc. Clearly people are interested in such things.

There would be a really really obvious uptick in interesting examples like this if impossible dreams were now suddenly weekend projects.

If you don’t have an example like this.. well another vibes coding anecdote about another CRUD app or a bash script with tricky awk is just not really what TFA is asking about. That is just evidence that LLMs have finally fixed search, which is great, but not the subject that we’re all the most curious about.

[crabsand]

Recently I tried to translate a few 100-200 line scripts from zsh to nushell with Claude 3.5 Sonnet and it sucked. This is now my go to experiment for new LLMs, translating code between two programming languages must be easier than translating natural language to a programming language, yet we don't see any such results, even for popular languages.

[player1234]

So you are saying that one-off scripts and hobby projects is not a trillion dollar industry? Blasphemy!

The emergent crew and I are going down going down to the shrine of Sam Altman later today to sacrifice a goat, maybe you would like to come and learn a thing or two?