Yaaaawn. If you know you know. This is script kiddy child's play with LLMs relative to security... My team is winning CTFs with fully local/distributed/private LLMs and automated agents. We deploy advanced AI honeypots and "chaos agents" using game theory orchestration and other cutting edge research. Anthropic isn't even on the radar relative to this. Microsoft/OpenAI are light years ahead given their proximity to gov/MIL... Adversarial machine learning is a fascinating area of study and practice, and relatively quiet when it comes to hype.
Its sad they call it cryptocurrency when its just dumb ass finance but with play money that idiots ascribe real value to and the old saying holds true... the rich get richer and the poor are born without assholes. I'll die happy having never participated.
Same. I fancy myself a decent technical communicator and architect. I write specs which consists of giant lists of acceptance criteria, on my phone, laying in bed...
Kick that over to some agents to bash on, check in and review here and there, maybe a little mix of vibe and careful corrections by me, and it's done!
Usually in less time, but! any time an agent is working on work shit, Im working on my race car... so its a win win win to me. Im still using my brain, no longer slogging through awful "human centered" programming languages, more time my hobbies.
Isn't that the dream?
Now, to crack this research around generative gibber-lang programming... 90% of our generative code problems are
related to the programming languages themselves. Intended for humans, optimized for human interaction, speed, and parsing. Let the AIs design, speak, write, and run the code. All I care about is that the program passes my tests and does what I intended. I do not care if it has indents, or other stupid dogmatic aspects of what makes one language equally usable to any other, but no "my programming language is better!", who cares. Loving this era.
Also says people are not using AI for anything meaningful. If you are trying to use AI in any meaningful way you are hyper skeptical of it and always trying to refine your dataset and understand its outputs. Anything less is mindless consumption, no different from any Joe Internet Consumer.
Local first! Someone else said, "You don't actually need any of those things until you no longer have a "project", but a business which will allow you to pay for the things you require." -- Similar response I have for clients and engineers when they waste time/energy/money on "scale" when we are building a prototype... "scale is a luxury that comes with revenue."
Im sure some of you may quip back, "it takes money to make money". No shit. Just dont get high on your own supply... Be smart, be scrappy, slow down.
Come on people, think about what is actually happening. They are not thinking... Think about what actually goes into the activity of thinking... LLMs, at no point actually do that. They do a little bit special padding and extra layers, but in most cases, every single time... not when needed, not sub-consciously, but dumbly.
Im already drifting off HN, but I swear, if this community gets all wooey and anthropomorphic over AI, Im out.
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