Devin Is A Lie?

My new invention, the microphone, is going to replace singers.

To everyone, always remember: >LLMs are a fancy auto complete >Hallucinations are a feature, not a bug, and you cannot rid yourself of them without crippling the ability of an LLM to provide difficult answers >Chain of Thought isn't. It is literally letting the AI do the data preprocessing by asking it to first break up a problem (which a competent prompter would do themselves) and then individually and sequentially query each problem. It will not remain relevant for long because it is simply too inefficient and time consuming compared to direct responses. >Chain of Thought is irrelevant if the person querying the AI has a clue, because they can do the preprocessing for it. If you need Chain of Thought, then you almost definitionally are incapable of validating the result it produces >Most software engineering on earth isn't high end code crafting, but wrangling the intrusive thoughts of tech leads into semi-coherent requirements and turning those into a semi-maintainable solution. Even if AI was that good, the amount of therapy that would have to go into removing the human intermediary would offset the savings twofold. >This is the 4th AI boom in 70 years. All of them had everyone convincing everyone AGI was around the corner, all of them had ludicrous amounts of investments pouring in, and all of them made a near 0 return on investment before inevitably blaming some random shit as to why AGI wasn't around the corner yet before sending AI funding into a 15 year winter. This one is just exceptionally awful because we finally got past the processing bottleneck >LLMs simply cannot be scaled into AGI, because an AGI is by definition a form of neural network we haven't figured out yet, rather than the guessing algorithm that we currently use. We still haven't the faintest idea on how to make a machine that actually builds a heuristic understanding of concepts and objects, let alone bring such a system within 5 orders of magnitudes of a human in terms of processing efficiency. >We are probably still 2 AI booms out from seeing actual AGI, and anyone trying to convince you otherwise is a fraud or clueless.

Go check out Internet of Bugs, I'm pretty sure this video you reacted to is an AI recreation of it (with a couple references to him). Lots of the lines were taken word for word it seems. Internet of Bugs is really a fantastic channel.

I've yet to hear anyone acknowledge the simple problem of, "If we fire all of our juniors, who is going to replace our seniors when they retire?"

Like for: Juniors are not as useless as AI.

Yesterday, Devin deleted me from the employee database at work and I was yeeted out of the office.

Yesterday I was escorted from my office in handcuffs because Devin replaced my job.

They say Devin is gonna replace all devs because that's how you raise two billion dollars. Whether it succeeds or not, the founders are set.

This AI hype reminds me a little bit of how they initially started cleaning the windows in Burj Khalifa with high tech robots etc, and at the end they decided the best way to do it, human labor.

In Biotech, VC firms attract experienced and talented scientists with high salaries to work for them to evaluate the science behind the promise of biotech startups. I've wondered why tech VC firms don't hold on to a team of principal engineers that can do the same and report back on the tech as part of the due diligence.