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points by beeandapenguin 2 days ago | 0 comments

> deterministic hooks not firing.

We went from building skyscrapers to building a house of cards.

using an imaginative tool to do a deterministic task is more idiotic than... i can't come up with a metaphor.

LLMs were meant to be the ministers, not the king.

Treating them like kings was our mistake in the first place. Give it another year, we're going to see a lot more blunders.

[–] teiferer 2 days ago

Both things true but not actually the same.

Or would you be fine with a deterministic king?

[–] faidit 1 day ago

Generally speaking, yes it would be preferable to a fickle or arbitrary king.

[–] teiferer 1 day ago

Preferring sth bad over sth worse is not the same thing as being fine with the former.

[–] bunderbunder 1 day ago

I’m honestly fascinated by how our profession is simultaneously having something of a crisis over all these arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities that keep getting found, and totally hype about explicitly granting the ability to execute arbitrary code and commands on our developer workstations over to an opaque third party service running on servers operated by companies that are now known to be unbelievably lax about cybersecurity.

[–] partyficial 1 day ago

because the camel cannot see its own hump only others'

[–] andrekandre 2 days ago

i'm sure somebody will come up with a solution; the barrier has never been lower to reinvent the flat tire...