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  • Tell me then, was the problem solved, the work done by the LLM?

    partially

    Was it considered good enough for a mainbranch?

    Probably, if it took multiple experts to catch the bug.

    Or was it faulty/risky and require highly trained experts to catch? Then flagged, and only put into an experimental branch?

    As happens with human code all the time

    How many ex-Oracle memory experts do you think are available for this work, in which even Linus didn’t catch the race condition?

    No idea, at least one.

    A competent person like Linus can manage and direct competent code generation, whether that code is generated by an AI or an intern.


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    toTechnology@lemmy.world•Why is Hacker News like that?
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    29 days ago

    Right wingers have used that exact line on me, because they assume all “woke” actions are performative and aren’t based in real beliefs.

    Well Paul Graham is not referring to you, since the rest of his quote makes it clear that he is talking about those who don’t engage deeply.

    Imo there’s no point in discussing a quote or article if you aren’t going to take it in good faith. If you take the worst interpretation of their words, of course it’s going to be bad.

    But if you take Paul Graham’s words at face value, then he’s simply saying that he believes shallow engagement had a large and negative influence on online discourse. That’s all you need to take from that quote.




  • Another article of Drew Devault grasping straws. For example he picks out this quote when trying to diminish Paul Graham:

    Racism, for example, is a genuine problem. Not a problem on the scale that the woke believe it to be, but a genuine one. I don’t think any reasonable person would deny that. The problem with political correctness was not that it focused on marginalized groups, but the shallow, aggressive way in which it did so. Instead of going out into the world and quietly helping members of marginalized groups, the politically correct focused on getting people in trouble for using the wrong words to talk about them.

    I literally don’t see what’s wrong with this quote. Paul Graham is referencing identity politics, virtue signaling, and other behaviors that were definitely common before, and are still fairly common today.