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by moralestapia 33 days ago
Wow, phenomenal project and write-up, thanks for sharing it.

"no - not in any practical sense today, and "maybe" only in a very deep, borderline-impractical research sense."

This is why humans will always rule over crappy LLMs.
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falcor84 33 days ago
Wait, why? This is exactly what I as a human would have said in this situation.

Or if you're referring to how the OP still decided to go ahead, I've seen AIs go ahead on impractical courses of action many times, and surprisingly succeed on some of them.

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scottjg 33 days ago
in fairness to the LLM critics, every time i ran into a minor speed bump in this project, it told me it probably just wasn't possible to get it to work well. the LLM did pretty actively discourage me from trying to get the whole thing working.

that said, since i was willing to ignore that aspect of it, it did accelerate getting the work done by a lot. it seems like it understands system programming really well, and did a good job navigating the qemu codebase. i have ~20 years of systems programming experience so i already knew what had to be done here. it didn't really guide the project much, but it did write a lot of the code.

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moralestapia 33 days ago
And I see that you succeeded in not doing it.

Congrats! Each one got what they wanted :).

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lowbloodsugar 33 days ago
Every major moment in my career has been me doing something that another human or clique of humans has said is impossible. If you think this is purely an LLM trait, I can't imagine you've tried to achieve anything important in the real world.
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csours 33 days ago
I believe that LLM (and ML in general) tools really shine when they are developed and used AS tools.

Unfortunately, I also believe that market forces may push away from this direction, as LLM companies try to capture the value stream

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rvz 33 days ago
Exactly. AI psychosis is real.

Never let an AI tell you that you cannot do something practical for your own self for research, discovery or for fun.

The only thing that is close to impractical is expecting your non-technical friends or others to follow you without any incentive or benefit.

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