alt Hacker NewsMaybe I'm looking through rose colored glasses, but software that writes itself seems like a pretty big breakthrough to me.
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fdsajfkldsfklds • yesterday at 10:26 PM
Strictly speaking, it's modifying itself. Although it would be an interesting challenge - can an llm create a new llm from scratch?
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maplethorpe • yesterday at 10:38 PM
It's pretty crazy that a company like Anthropic no longer needs to hire Software Engineers, because their software engineers itself. If that's not a break through I don't know what is!
edit: it looks like I was wrong and they're still hiring many software engineers. Not completely sure why that is just yet.
brazukadev • yesterday at 11:15 PM
Which is funny because people have been using LISP for that since 1960.
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That goes straight to my point: then why hasn’t the miracle of automated coding led to breakthroughs outside of automated coding?
If the only breakthrough is automated coding with no outside consequence then it’s just masturbation