Either a lot more tools got a lot better,
That’s what it was. Even the free, open source models are vastly superior to the best of the best from just a year ago.
People got into their heads that AI is shit when it was shit and decided at that moment that it was going to be stuck in that state forever. They forget that AI is just software and software usually gets better over time. Especially open source software which is what all the big AI vendors are building their tools on top of.
We’re still in the infancy of generative AI.
If you read AI critics, you will see people presenting solid financial evidence of the failure of AI companies to do what they promised. Remember Sam Altman promised AGI in 2025? I certainly do, and now so do you.
Do you have any concrete evidence that this financial flop will turn around before it runs out of money?
Assume all the big AI firms die: Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta. Poof! They’re gone!
Here would be my reaction: “So anyway… have you tried GLM-7? It’s amazing! Also, there’s a new workflow in ComfyUI I’ve been using that works great to generate…”
Generative AI is here to stay. You don’t need a trillion dollars worth of data centers for progress to continue. That’s just billionaires living in an AGI fantasy land.
I’m sick and tired of AI fans making statements like
Generative AI is here to stay
without evidence.
Citation needed.
Oh wow, comparing a thing to a completely different thing without demonstrating the comparison is valid.
Exactly the non-evidence I expected.
Sorry, it’s what you deserve. You just really, really want to hate AI, and when people try to tell you that it has good points, you don’t want to hear it. Time will tell, I suppose.
I “deserve” non-evidence because I don’t buy your agenda? Wtf
Linux kernel czar?
I’m curious about this but I refuse to click the link because that just sounds so fucking stupid.
The headline is stupid but the article is interesting. Greg is saying that since last month for some unknown reason, AI bug reports have gotten good and useful, and something current Linux maintainers can handle.
It’s not just bug reports; in the last month, AI driven development has actually gone from slop to reliably better than the average human.
That’s not saying it’s writing better code, just that managing the development process and catching regular bugs is now better than when run by a junior analyst.
Makes sense that a properly balanced model with randomization turned down should be able to recognize when something is being done outside the acceptable parameters.
It’s not just bug reports; in the last month, AI driven development has actually gone from slop to reliably better than the average human.
Funny, I heard that same claim about 6 months ago.
And I’m sure I’ll hear it again in another 6 months or so.
I’m a xennial developer. I"ve been coding for 30 years. AI now codes better (and a thousand timed faster) than most mid-level developers. The company I work for has not hired a single junior dev for months now. The new paradigm is a senior dev controlling a team of AI agents. It feels like it doesn’t even make sense to think of training juniors, because at this rate even seniors will be obsolete in a year or two.
AI in the software dev world is not hype.
Every single comment made by this person in the past three months is pro-AI. Every. Single. One.
Do you work for Anthropic? Perhaps, you are an LLM?
AI now codes better (and a thousand timed faster) than most mid-level developers.
You, if you are indeed a real person, might be overestimating your proficiency, it happens.
How is this pro-AI?
Makes sense that a properly balanced model with randomization turned down should be able to recognize when something is being done outside the acceptable parameters.
I don’t know how you gathered such a sense when that not being true has been the main laughing point for AI since its inception. Meta AI security and safety researcher Summer Yue’s “Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw ‘confirm before acting’ and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox” was just last month btw.
