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CamperBob2yesterday at 5:41 AM1 replyview on HN

AI is more like a parrot which is trained to give a correct-looking response to any question.

A parrot that writes better code and English prose than I do?

I would like to buy your parrot.


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rootusrootusyesterday at 8:08 PM

I suspect we just continually overestimate the uniqueness of both our code and our vocabulary. We think we are pretty smart, and we are, but on these two measures 99.999% of us are pretty average, and the LLM just keeps surprising us anyway by proving it.