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pragmaticyesterday at 5:24 PM3 repliesview on HN

Now run that loop 1000 times.

What does the code /system look like.

It is going to be more like evolution (fit to environment) than engineering (fit to purpose).

It will be fascinating to watch nonetheless.


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ThrowawayR2yesterday at 8:48 PM

It'll probably look like the code version of this, an image run through a LLM 101 times with the directive to create a replica of the input image: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1kbj71z/i_tried_th... Despite being provided with explicit instructions, well...

People are still wrongly attributing a mind to something that is essentially mindless.

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finebalanceyesterday at 5:29 PM

"evolution (fit to environment) than engineering (fit to purpose)."

Oh, I absolutely love this lens.

skybrianyesterday at 5:36 PM

Sure, if all you ask it to do is fix bugs. You can also ask it to work on code health things like better organization, better testing, finding interesting invariants and enforcing them, and so on.

It's up to you what you want to prioritize.

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