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and just in time to flop this from a private market crisis to a state-run three-ring circus fiasco, it's marc a! bsky.app/profile/wash...

I can vouch for Claude's ability to generate code that usually works well enough, and a lot faster than I can write it. I'm still not sure this is improving my productivity all that much, but it does make it possible to write UI code I would never touch at all. I agree that the hype is overblown.

I mean yeah, software is cool. Compilers are cool. some of the automation tricks are useful. But it still isn't sentient or magic or a symmetrical replacement for human brains. It's also not affordable. And it's destroying the climate. So...

The sentience issue is an interesting one because LLMs pass the Turing test at this point by reasonable criteria. Turing said nothing about consciousness though. His 1950 paper holds up well, but I think he might be surprised. What they lack is any kind of self-sensing loop, so there is ...

Thank you for your clear-eyed view on this. So - predictions on when the bubble will burst on this stuff??

hard to say given the level of corruption and logic-impermeability of the memestock movement, but I suspect later this year or early next We'll see

But it's coming, isn't it