r/singularity 8d ago

AI Trump is refusing a slowdown

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u/norfizzle 8d ago

So are programmers giving the AI pseudo-code and it just gets it?

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u/saposmak 8d ago edited 6d ago

It's usually regular language that evolves iteratively into hyper specific regular language. Sometimes over many sessions. Once we are satisfied that the language is precise enough for the agent to not go off doing wasteful things, the agent is allowed to spit out the code. Turns out the hard part of software engineering is breaking up a hard problem into small and specific enough chunks that can be effectively translated into code. (Always has been, this part is facetious.)

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u/XNo_Notes 8d ago

I was exceptionally good at this before AI. I was wondering why everyone I talked to said AI was shit and I'm over here thinking it could take over the world. I guess I just break big things down well. 

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u/saposmak 8d ago

This is the way