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by quantummagic 196 days ago
I'm not sure. If you see what they're doing with feedback already in code generation. The LLM makes a "hallucination", generates the wrong idea, then tests its code only to find out it doesn't compile. And goes on to change its idea, and try again.
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A few minutes worth of “personal experience” doesn't really deserve the “personal experience” qualifier.
Why not? It's just a minor example of what's possible, to show the general concept has already started.
> show the general concept has already started

The same way a todler creeping is the start of the general concept of space exploration.

Yes. And even so, it shows remarkable effectiveness already.
Like a car engine or a combine. The problem isn't the effectiveness of the tool for its purpose, it's the religion around it.
We seem to be talking past one another. All I was talking about was the facts of how these systems perform, without any reverence about it at all.

But to your point, I do see a lot of people very emotionally and psychologically committed to pointing out how deeply magical humans are, and how impossible we are to replicate in silicon. We have a religion about ourselves; we truly do have main character syndrome. It's why we mistakenly thought the earth was at the center of the universe for eons. But even with that disproved, our self-importance remains boundless.