So I’ll respond here instead as the conversation progressed.
I would say the quality of the input data is likely very important component and I think you are wrong overall in your opinion.
I would say the quality of input training data is so important that I’ve personally been thinking I should probably start data hoarding myself, specifically around my skillsets.
Additionally when you understand that embedding like word2vec are perhaps a significant part of the improvement, not just the transformers, it occurs that adding symbolic capabilities, like classic symbolic reasoning and for example symbolic computing, like Mathematica, then maybe provide also true computational power, floating point, so it can write, debug, and execute it’s own output… it must be getting closer and closer to AGI.
when you play with the system, which I feel most of the commenters on HN which are being dismissive likely have not personally spent enough time exploring it’s current capabilities, then there is no way any well trained and experienced SWE isn’t blown away.
This is why I said you are in denial.
I happen to thing AGI will be very beneficial for humanity and I also think this is a positive for SWE by humans, including myself. I will very likely be a paying customer when the trial ends in a few weeks.
I feel like I'm watching some things unfold at a rate I haven't seen before.
We have having people write scripts and API access at the speed of thought and then interface parts of the web and test it that previously hasn't had this speed in the feedback loop ever before.
I also think a lot of people are doing things right now as a "I'll be the first..." with an idea to have fun and write a script that spams X, not thinking about the fact that there are a lot of others doing X too. The waves are just starting.
I don't think we are having to worry about the AI making itself smarter AI just yet.. we need to first be worrying about people drowning us with the help of AI.
So I’ll respond here instead as the conversation progressed.
I would say the quality of the input data is likely very important component and I think you are wrong overall in your opinion.
I would say the quality of input training data is so important that I’ve personally been thinking I should probably start data hoarding myself, specifically around my skillsets.
Additionally when you understand that embedding like word2vec are perhaps a significant part of the improvement, not just the transformers, it occurs that adding symbolic capabilities, like classic symbolic reasoning and for example symbolic computing, like Mathematica, then maybe provide also true computational power, floating point, so it can write, debug, and execute it’s own output… it must be getting closer and closer to AGI.
when you play with the system, which I feel most of the commenters on HN which are being dismissive likely have not personally spent enough time exploring it’s current capabilities, then there is no way any well trained and experienced SWE isn’t blown away.
This is why I said you are in denial.
I happen to thing AGI will be very beneficial for humanity and I also think this is a positive for SWE by humans, including myself. I will very likely be a paying customer when the trial ends in a few weeks.