Phoenix

If you want to disabuse yourself of the notion that AI is close to replacing programmers for anything but the most mundane and trivial tasks, try to have GPT 4 generate a novel implementation of moderate complexity and watch it import mystery libraries that do exactly what you want the code to do, but that don’t actually exist.

Yeah, you can do a lot without writing a single line of code. You can certainly interact with the models because others who can have already done the leg work. But someone still has to do it.

“The bug is fixed, but we inadvertently created two new ones, one of which broke production because it was inexplicably not caught.”

That’s only the first stage. Once you get tired enough you start writing code that not even you can understand the next morning, but which you’re loathe to change because “it just works”.

True! Interfacing is also a lot of work, but I think that starts straying away from AI to “How do we interact with it.” And let’s be real, plugging into OAI’s or Anthropic’s API is not that hard.

Does remind me of a very interesting implementation I saw once though. A VRChat bot powered by GPT 3.5 with TTS that used sentiment classification to display the appropriate emotion for the text generated. You could interact with it directly via talking to it. Very cool. Also very uncanny, truth be told.

All that is still in the realm of “fucking around” though.

Lazy is right. Spending fifty hours to automate a task that doesn’t take even five minutes is commonplace.

It takes laziness to new, artful heights.

You can make it as complicated as you want, of course.

Out of curiosity, what use-case did you find for it? I’m always interested to see how AI is actually applied in real settings.

Presumably you watermark all the training data.

At least, that’s my first instinct.

w++ is a programming language now 🤡

Claude 2 isn’t free though, is it?

Either way, it does depends on what you want to use it for. Claude 2 is very biased towards positivity and it can be like pulling teeth if you’re asking it to generate anything it even remotely disapproves of. In that sense, Claude 1 is the superior option.

Three cents for every 1k prompt tokens. You pay another six cents per 1k generated tokens in addition to that.

At 8k context size, this adds up quickly. Depending on what you send, you can easily be out ~thirty cents per generation.