To be fair, "the boy that cried wolf" has never been a more important story than it is today. There is an epidemic of lying for attention, and it presents as a false victim (its most pathetic form).
Easy win for companies that didn't buy into the hype. I'm the only dedicated software dev at my company, so there was no middle manager to foolishly think a chat bot could do my job. We are a small company that can compete with big players, and those big players appear to be floundering. Now, we are expanding.
I think you're mistaking improvements in tooling as improvements in the LLMs. LLMs are plateauing. The idea of exponential growth is an illusion. We took 20+ year old technology, geared it toward text (the LLM), and trained it on the entire Internet. Then, it's popularity grew exponentially.
This is the hype narrative that Altman, Dario, Jensen, etc. push. They are trying to convince everyone that what we have is the Model T Ford of AI. Just imagine where we'll be in 6 months!
Yup. The problem was never the hardware. It's the stack. We're all carrying supercomputers in our pockets now.
Feels like so many (dare I say most) programmers don't even understand the work that the OS does to make the C programming environment as nice as it currently is, let alone a 200 line TODO app that uses 6GB of RAM.
That's fucking nuts because any device that can connect to a cloud is powerful enough to run an operating system (they will probably not give user access to the non-volatile memory). Just not the bloated AI spyware box that they want.
I work in embedded, and you would be surprised how much work a CPU under 100mhz can do when there isn't an operating system/browser in the way. We need to get back to basics in the software industry. We've been going down the wrong road for a looooong time, and the AI bubble is only accelerating us in that wrong direction.
I feel like this has more to do with what field you work in and what language/paradigm you use. Especially if you're working within some bullshit walled garden, you may not have a choice. I'm a terminal jockey myself, but I mostly program in C, so my code is procedural and to the point. Maybe I might want some fancy smart refactoring feature if I worked in a language where half the code is boilerplate or glue.
If I have the choice though, I don't see any advantage to an IDE. It's like the combination of many tools rolled into a single, bloated UI with about 60% of their original functionality. And I guess it lets you build "projects" and choose which files will be built. That part never made sense to me. I don't need a program for that! Just delete it dog. It's in the repo!
IDE:
Text editor
Source control
Debugger
Compiler
Terminal
File explorer
I'm my opinion, these programs are just better as separate programs.
(Rant)
One thing that grinds my gears... Some IDEs will leave you with the dumbest possible directory structure imaginable. Like actively hostile toward us terminal jockeys. Remember, we are repeatedly typing these things out like cavemen. For example, c/c++ developers who put their headers in a separate, but identical directory structure. Oh and let's do full taxonomy and go 10 directories deep. And what the hell, capitalize random letters and throw in some with spaces into the directory names for good measure. These things don't have to matter to IDE people, but it is something to be mindful of.
Similar thought... If it was so revolutionary and innovative, I wouldn't have access to it. The AI companies would be keeping it to themselves. From a software perspective, they would be releasing their own operating systems and browsers and whatnot.
I think the order of Java and Python makes perfect sense. The OOP C++ -> Java pipeline was massive in the early 2000s when python wasn't really on the radar. The world has been slowly moving away from that, and Python is one of the most popular languages right now.
Maybe try convincing him in terms he would understand. If it was really that good, it wouldn't be public. They'd just use it internally to replace every proprietary piece of software in existence. They'd be shitting out their own browser, office suite, CAD, OS, etc. Microsoft would be screwing themselves by making chatgpt public. Microsoft could replace all the Adobe products and drive them out of business tomorrow.
Also depends how hard the AI runs them. A good chunk of the graphics cards that were used as miners came out on life support if not completely toasted. Games generally don't run the piss out of them like that 24/7, and many games are still CPU bound.
If the person who put you in charge of it knew of your indifference, that's a smart manager, and you should just trust your gut on this.
To be fair, "the boy that cried wolf" has never been a more important story than it is today. There is an epidemic of lying for attention, and it presents as a false victim (its most pathetic form).
Capthas aren't looking for perfect answers, it's looking for a close answer with human-like interaction.
All coke's still image ads are AI now. Clearly AI and creepy as fuck.
Here's one off their site:
It just gives you the ick when you see it in public.
Easy win for companies that didn't buy into the hype. I'm the only dedicated software dev at my company, so there was no middle manager to foolishly think a chat bot could do my job. We are a small company that can compete with big players, and those big players appear to be floundering. Now, we are expanding.
I think you're mistaking improvements in tooling as improvements in the LLMs. LLMs are plateauing. The idea of exponential growth is an illusion. We took 20+ year old technology, geared it toward text (the LLM), and trained it on the entire Internet. Then, it's popularity grew exponentially.
This is the hype narrative that Altman, Dario, Jensen, etc. push. They are trying to convince everyone that what we have is the Model T Ford of AI. Just imagine where we'll be in 6 months!
Not before it wipes out windows.
Yup. The problem was never the hardware. It's the stack. We're all carrying supercomputers in our pockets now.
Feels like so many (dare I say most) programmers don't even understand the work that the OS does to make the C programming environment as nice as it currently is, let alone a 200 line TODO app that uses 6GB of RAM.
That's fucking nuts because any device that can connect to a cloud is powerful enough to run an operating system (they will probably not give user access to the non-volatile memory). Just not the bloated AI spyware box that they want.
I work in embedded, and you would be surprised how much work a CPU under 100mhz can do when there isn't an operating system/browser in the way. We need to get back to basics in the software industry. We've been going down the wrong road for a looooong time, and the AI bubble is only accelerating us in that wrong direction.
I feel like this has more to do with what field you work in and what language/paradigm you use. Especially if you're working within some bullshit walled garden, you may not have a choice. I'm a terminal jockey myself, but I mostly program in C, so my code is procedural and to the point. Maybe I might want some fancy smart refactoring feature if I worked in a language where half the code is boilerplate or glue.
If I have the choice though, I don't see any advantage to an IDE. It's like the combination of many tools rolled into a single, bloated UI with about 60% of their original functionality. And I guess it lets you build "projects" and choose which files will be built. That part never made sense to me. I don't need a program for that! Just delete it dog. It's in the repo!
IDE:
I'm my opinion, these programs are just better as separate programs.
(Rant) One thing that grinds my gears... Some IDEs will leave you with the dumbest possible directory structure imaginable. Like actively hostile toward us terminal jockeys. Remember, we are repeatedly typing these things out like cavemen. For example, c/c++ developers who put their headers in a separate, but identical directory structure. Oh and let's do full taxonomy and go 10 directories deep. And what the hell, capitalize random letters and throw in some with spaces into the directory names for good measure. These things don't have to matter to IDE people, but it is something to be mindful of.
https://filepilot.tech/
AI hype in a nutshell
Similar thought... If it was so revolutionary and innovative, I wouldn't have access to it. The AI companies would be keeping it to themselves. From a software perspective, they would be releasing their own operating systems and browsers and whatnot.
It's a form of engagement hacking.
I think the order of Java and Python makes perfect sense. The OOP C++ -> Java pipeline was massive in the early 2000s when python wasn't really on the radar. The world has been slowly moving away from that, and Python is one of the most popular languages right now.
Odin mentioned!
- unity build gang
Maybe try convincing him in terms he would understand. If it was really that good, it wouldn't be public. They'd just use it internally to replace every proprietary piece of software in existence. They'd be shitting out their own browser, office suite, CAD, OS, etc. Microsoft would be screwing themselves by making chatgpt public. Microsoft could replace all the Adobe products and drive them out of business tomorrow.
Edit: that was fast
Also depends how hard the AI runs them. A good chunk of the graphics cards that were used as miners came out on life support if not completely toasted. Games generally don't run the piss out of them like that 24/7, and many games are still CPU bound.
I took his comment to mean recession from bubble popping.