Wasn't that Johnny Cash though? Trent offered an empire of shit IIRC, but maybe that's suitable too 🤷

Thanks to the wonders of capitalism, a bunch of businesses that would have to yield to tyrannical open source devs and their goody-two-shoes mentality can pool their bargaining power and each pay a little to a benevolent clean room reimplementer of security fixes.

Or, they can vendor the library and ask Claude to fix it in-tree 🤷

You can relicense code. Though that doesn't mean that you can take anything away. You just open another avenue for people to use what you wrote and developed, and any old license still exists and retains validity; the way you can curtail rights is by not granting liberal terms on newly created code.

This is how macOS switched to zsh, and left all GNU code in it to rot.

No one is arguing that an "idiot savant in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber" cannot be economically useful, but does it make plain old intelligence obsolete? I'm not buying it (yet).

The issue with longstanding problems such as these is that yes, they can be used to establish evidence of plagiarizing if your LLM is simply regurgitating stuff, but suppose you cannot come up with any… you don't really know if it's because this particular line of thought is new, or because you just hadn't read about it.

That's true even if you're an expert practitioner; LLMs have been trained on All Of The Text and have superhuman recall after all.

That's what's gotta sting the most about this. Imagine you worked a problem for a long time… and then The Giant Pattern Matcher With Zero Fluid Intelligence actually finds something.

If it did find something, that implies the solution already existed in bits and pieces in the published literature. You would "just" have had to have read about it, and remember it, for successful application.

But suppose you had succeeded in that. You would have published a paper that enumerates a bunch of results some other people had reached, then plugs them together for a supposedly new theorem. Sort of like importing a dozen Python libraries, adding around fifty lines of glue code around them and then going, yeah, here's a "new" thing, Fields Medal plz!

How much remaining interestingness did your chosen problem really have if the new math you had to create for it fits on the placemat buttressing the campus cafeteria sandwich you had for lunch?

If your idea of an idea is "concept that I personally am not aware of but which has been conceived, elaborated on and documented by another human being"…

Then yes, totally!

If DNSSEC is so good, why haven't the SATAN companies (SpaceX, Apple, TSMC, Alphabet, NVIDIA) signed their zones already?

Christ, you'd think these folks are tying their self worth to the rollout of this non-starter of a technology 🤦

I wonder if he sat on the joke until someone in East Asia replicated reusable rockets.

Y'know, to not sound like an Elon booster (pun not intended).

Dude skipped treatment-that-could-do-something and went palliative immediately.

Those fireworks are a visual metaphor on how he wants to go I imagine.

Pregnancy is a gatcha

Bold of you to assume that my offspring would be useful in some way.

The headline seems to be predicated on the assumption that stable branches receive fixes faster.

I'm not convinced that this holds true, does anyone know?