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“I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program…” (geohot.github.io)
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I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harder and harder to detect. Which is exactly what you’d expect from an increasingly accurate statistical model.

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[–] 22 points 4 months ago (1 child)

geohot

Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. George Hotz was the guy who first jailbroke iOS and the PlayStation 3 and made the towelroot exploit for early versions of Android, before legal threats drove him out of the scene.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    And the self driving car company? Didn’t he also recently found another company for servers or something? I remember seeing him get like 1st place (or top 10) for one of the days on Advent of Code like a year or two ago. Thats very difficult, like Olympic swimmer of programmer type of thing.

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