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wild to see the replies to this post. i just had sol-5.6 write a fuzzer for incremental compilation in rustc almost autonomously. one of my cofounders had claude spend the night profiling/benchmarking our storage system and came back to a stack of changes in the following morning

P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com

This is the crux of the debate, right? Whether it's doing mimicry or reasoning. I struggle to see how you could view it as purely mimicry. It has to tie together multiple novel thoughts in a logical construction to create its responses.

Mindesthaltbar

@mindesthaltbar.bsky.social

8 Sept

Maybe that says more about the task it's automating than the AI itself

david barsky

@davidbarsky.com

8 Sept

i don’t think it does. these tasks would have not been feasible before this year.

Mindesthaltbar

@mindesthaltbar.bsky.social

8 Sept

You mean with AI or your own abilities?

david barsky

@davidbarsky.com

with ai. i did an equivalent task (sans ai) 2 years ago that took roughly 6 months, end to end.

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Mindesthaltbar

@mindesthaltbar.bsky.social

8 Sept

Well I have no baseline here but could it be that another person or you suing a better method could have done it much faster even back then?

david barsky

@davidbarsky.com

8 Sept

yeah, but there were like… 2 people other people qualified to do so, and they were working on astral.sh/blog/ty at a separate company (you’ll see my name on that blog posts. we shared the same underlying library and worked together on it for the better part of a year.)