This is my only comment on this entire subject. Why are you being so defensive? A death toll cannot possibly be negative no matter how defensive you are.
If average people try vibecoding their dependencies, they’ll fail, simple as that. We’ve already seen how that looks with the “web browsers” that have recently been vibecoded.
There's a new web browser project today that's a heck of a lot more impressive than the previous ones - ~20,000 lines of dependency-free Rust (though it uses system libraries for image and text rendering), does a good job of the Hacker News homepage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779522
Thanks for the heads up, that does look much more interesting.
I don't think it really affects the point discussed above for now, because we were discussing average users, and by definition, the first person to code a plausible web browser with an agent isn't an average user - unless of course that can be reliably replicated with any average user.
But on that note, the takeaways on the post you linked are relevant, because the author bucked a few trends to do this, and concluded among other things that "The human who drives the agent might matter more than how the agents work and are set up, the judge is still out on this one."
This will obviously change, but the areas that LLMs need to improve on here are ones they're notoriously weak on, so it could take a while.
It wasn’t a stunt and there was nothing questionable about it. I’m amazed by how easily people shit all over journalists - it really has to end because it is precisely how truth dies.
Here’s a question - since you have such strong feelings did you write the editor of the piece for their explanation?
I’m sorry but the fact this has turned into a multi comment debate is proof that that phrase was way too ambiguous to be included. That phrase made no sense and the article, while unreliable, would have at least been more readable without it.
I’ll be honest with you pal - this statement sounds like you’ve bought the hype. The truth is likely between the poles - at least that’s where it’s been for the last 35 years that I’ve been obsessed with this field.
"Airplanes are only 5 years away, just like 10 years ago" --Some guy in 1891.
Never use your phrase to say something is impossible. I mean there are driverless Waymo's on the street in my area so your statement is already partially incorrect.
Nobody is saying it isn't possible. Just saying nobody wants to pay as much money as it's going to take to get there. At some point investors will say, meh, good 'nuff.
I feel like we are at the crescendo point with "AI". Happens with every tech pushed here. 3DTV? You have those people who will shout you down and say every movie from now on will be 3D. Oh yeah? Hmmm... Or the people who see Apple's goggles and yell that everyone will be wearing them and that's just going to be the new norm now. Oh yeah? Hmmm...
Truth is, for "AI" to get markedly better than it is now (0) will take vastly more money than anyone is willing to put into it.
(0) Markedly, meaning it will truly take over the majority of dev (and other "thought worker") roles.
That’s really the whole point - EU food standards indicate that the need to use acids to prevent bacteria growth is the problem. The EU system is based on having higher sanitation requirements at all steps from feed to cage to plate.
How exactly is QE related to all this bullshit? You’re going to need some sources before you start randomly claiming that QE is leading to the collapse of NATO.
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