alt Hacker NewsThis is copium that is gone with the wind when the models perform up to the level of standard that the user requires. I'll give the author 6 months before they feel like its okay to just send it.
Karpathy had the same trajectory. Primeagean had the same trajectory. I think in the end everyone except for Jonathan Blow will have the same trajectory
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If you don't understand the code, how can you know if it's good enough?
I guess you could ask the model. "Yes well done, you're a visionary software engineer".
In the narrow case of your profession perhaps. Beyond the slipshod world of most software is a universe of standards, licenses and liability.
The lawyers and judges who trusted an ML system to be up to snuff are currently pounding sand.
Why would Prime be in that list. He had an entire arc where he tried to make it work and then went back to the drawing board.
I am not saying he writes all code by hand, of course. Just that he is furthest in figuring out some sort of mid point between full comprehension and cognitive surrender.
I have missed the more recent content, so perhaps I have missed something, but this was my read last I watched.
Writing is hard, but what I was trying to say is that it's okay to just send it as long as you're doing it consciously and intentionally (and I do that frequently enough); but if it's not an explicit choice that can be problematic.