I was able to confuse the llm with the following command while in the living room: "go back outside and find mailbox" (which I had forgot to check before going in the window)
It got super confused, went in and out the window three times. It did actually recover and plop me outside suggesting I head north and west. Good times!
> I worry about new languages though. I guess maybe model training with synthetic data will become a requirement?
I read a (rather pessimistic) comment here yesterday claiming that the current generation of languages is most likely going to be the last, since the already existing corpus of code for training is going to trump any other possible feature the new language might introduce, and most of the code will be LLM generated anyways.
I had the thought of an AI-specific bytecode a while ago, but since then it's seemed a little silly -- the only langs that work well with agentic coding are the major ones with big open-source corpuses and SO/reddit discussions to train on.
I also saw something about a bytecode for prompts, which again seems to miss the point -- natural language is the win here.
What is kind of mysterious about the whole thing is that LLMs aren't compilers yet they grok code really well. It's always been a mystery to me that tools weren't smarter and then with LLMs the tooling became smarter than the compiler, and yet ... if it actually was a compiler we could choose to instruct it with code and get deterministic results. Something about the chaos is the very value they provide.
The OP question was about agentic utility specifically. I've also gotten great side-project utility from AI codegen without having to marry my project to CC or give up on looking at code by simply prompting when I need something from whatever LLM.
Nothing wrong with CC, but I keep hearing the same kind of app being built -- home automation, side-project CRUD.
What I'm deeply skeptical of is the ability for agentic to integrate with a team maintaining+shipping a critical offering. If you're using LLMs for one-off PRs, great but then agentic seems like a band aid for memory etc.
Meamwhile if you're full CC/agentic it seems like a team would get out of sync.
It's weird, I'm on 8.2.4 but it hasn't asked me for any new permissions. It did use mobile data last October but none this month. Is network access a permission? I only see "Phone" granted.
It may be because my aging phone is on Android 10, I auto-migrated Nova from an even older phone. Back then app drawers were in the free version, so after the migration I can't modify them (don't care, I didn't end up using that feature).
> The reality is that most hand-made art is an unconscious mash-up of learned signifiers mediated by some kind of technique
Yeah, no. Competent artists are not generalizable as "unconscious", solely "mashing up" influences or input, or even working with "signifiers": many are exquisitely aware of their sources; many employ diverse and articulated methodologies for creation and elaboration; many enjoy working with the concrete elements of their medium with no concern for signification. Even "technique" does not have a uniform meaning across different fields and modes.
That's not really the same as stores outright banning AI code.
An apt analogy would be like a shared drawing taking merge requests and having to spend 30 minutes looking at every single merge request zoomed in to see if there was a microscopic phallus embedded somewhere.
It is completely fair for an open source project to have their own standards, and you are also free to fork it so you can accept as many AI PRs as you want.
None of these options are available for someone that wants to sell AI generated music. There are really only 2 marketplaces to sell your own music and if both of them banned AI, then you are effectively locked out of the entire market.
Your point echoes the "death of the author" concept in literature, where the work is independent of the creator, full stop. It's a useful concept up to a point, but if you really have no idea what it means to have a deep connection to music that is wrapped up in some idea of the creator as a human being, you should trust others when they say they do and it's important to them. For those of us with that value, AI slop is offensive, and to be clear, it has precedents in history with Muzak, early schlager music etc -- what they all share is a desire to use the power of music for non-artistic ends, which sucks from any number of viewpoints. If music has non-artistic utility, that doesn't justify a concerted effort to take away artist-made music from those who may not be paying attention.
I appreciate the honesty. I'm not saying people don't have this relationship with art, I think everyone can have some degrees of it, including me.
But my experience as an artist talking to non-artists about art, I don't think the sentiment that art without a struggling artist, purpose, story to tell, human arc, etc, is not real art is a true sentiment. First of all, because it's not true, because people apply their own meaning and form their own unique relationship with an artist. (The saying don't meet your heroes come to mind.)
Note that I'm not talking about AI at all here. I'm 100% for banning purely generated AI on soundcloud, bandcamp, spotify, etc. What I really want is to filter out art created by people who has put profit as first priority and thrown away any shred of artistic integrity.
But this is an impossible feat, because who am I to judge that someone else's favorite artist is devoid of artistic integrity?
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