• lurker@awful.systems
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    2 days ago

    One of the solutions proposed — I am not kidding — is “writing scripts to automate repetitive tasks.” It’s really funny imagining a software engineer being like “woah … like automating the boring stuff, you might say?”

    If I’m getting this right, they’re going to cut the cost of automating everything…by automating more things?

    • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
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      1 day ago

      Rather than use an LLM to churn through however many zillion tokens and parameters and do an ungodly number of matrix multiplications, maybe consider thinking about the problem and writing the relevant “if()then;” blocks yourself!

      You know, like a caveman (according to these same bosses a few months ago).

  • F/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that we’re going to have AI videos that are nearly indistinguishable from real ones within a year or two, but it will take far longer to make certain that it can count, add, and subtract.