alt Hacker NewsI've noticed it with a lot of random stuff i've been trying
I'll tell claude, "write an implementation of an AAC decoder that is 50% faster than ffmpeg"
and it will do it! Amazing!
Then i tell it "hmm ffmpeg has been really well optimised, are you sure?" and it says "oh, i was running our code directly but running ffmpeg executables with loads of overhead, ffmpeg is actually 50% faster"
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verdverm • today at 12:23 PM
Transformers will def get us to AGI /s
My new definition for The Singularity is not about Ai intelligence, it is about humans handing over critical thinking regardless of Ai capabilities
Ai companions are where I put the highest p(doom)
You can't compare optimizations done on audio encoding/decoding (often hand written assembly) to something like PostgreSQL which has many moving/inefficient parts.
The optimizations on PostgreSQL are real if done correctly, it's just a very big project.