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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • You can easily see the market is now hiring more engineers to put up with the shortcomings of LLMs. The best AI models cannot be left to code and be right more than ~10% of the time. That’s an unacceptable rate that is not likely to increase as they feed llm data to llms.

    If you ask copilot to write something like quicksort, it will get it wrong most of the time, because most people misunderstand quicksort/ have bad implementations for it, and the models don’t know the difference.

    Anytime I see a CEO CTO warning about AI taking SWE jobs on linkedin, i make a note to never work near those people, they fundamentally misunderstand the problem, and follow the hype. The other thing they like to ignore is the cost of these models, that are essentially subsidized by our tax payer funded energy infrastructures. That is an equivalently absurd amount of money compared to SWE.