Timnit Gebru (she/her).1d ago

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930

Incredible thread.

Answered some of my questions about what people think the future will be if everyone codes like this. It seems to be: instead of thinking about constraints of any kind or "what is the most efficient way to do Y or the most readable way to do Z?" answer the question, "what is the most brute force way to perform X if I pretend that there are no resource constraints and nothing needs to make sense as long as I see some sort of test passing? Just ship it with spaghetti code.

Show threadPaul Rietschka1d ago

@timnitGebru Never in my life did I think I'd see software development, a field that's spent decades building best practices and being concerned with security and code quality, destroy itself in a matter of months.

At this point these people might as well be just reading tea leaves, or casting chicken bones on the ground.

Show threadG. Wozniak1d ago
@prietschka @timnitGebru The worst part is that those who should care won't because "now I get to play with all my ideas!"
Show threadPaul Rietschka
@gwozniak @timnitGebru "Working at higher levels of abstraction" is just some chudly pleading with his chatbot, apparently.
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Show threadG. Wozniak1d ago
@prietschka @timnitGebru "Will you be my giant WHILE loop? Love ya."
Show threadPaul Rietschka1d ago

@gwozniak @timnitGebru When you have to plead with your LLM to "pretend you're a superhero," or whatever it is people are doing these days, we've long gone through the looking glass.

We've been at the level of New Age crystal ooga booga nonsense for ages with this technology, it's insane anyone takes any of this seriously. I feel like I live inside an opium hallucination.

Show threadRichard Kolasa5h ago
@prietschka there are two bubbles, the financial one and the linguistic one.