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Don't fall into the anti-AI hype (antirez.com)

submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) by nil@piefed.ca to c/technology@lemmy.zip

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Whatever you believe about what the Right Thing should be, you can't control it by refusing what is happening right now. Skipping AI is not going to help you or your career. Think about it. Test these new tools, with care, with weeks of work, not in a five minutes test where you can just reinforce your own beliefs. Find a way to multiply yourself, and if it does not work for you, try again every few months.

P.S. I learned that not all of you are developers.

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[–] Senal@programming.dev 3 points 6 hours ago

Or Perhaps:

They have a large corpus of context files to help with all aspects of how the output is generated
They're using a model with specialised fine tuning for the task attempted
They have a series of MCP servers with access to relevant tooling available
They have many many hours of prior experience with the setup and usage of such tools
They used multiple tools manually and pulled the bits they needed
They just said "Make me a thing" and it just worked like magic

they mention reinforcement learning, pre-training and other general LLM concepts, but none of these are related back to the tasks they are talking about.

The point is, there was no explanation of how any of this was achieved, which can lead to confusion about what was actually achieved.

The LLM wrote some docs vs the LLM rewrote the library from end to end are very different things.

It's very much a "Don't give up on X, look at what can be achieved" but without any actual details on what is required to achieve those results.