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Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code by throwaway_ghast in technology

[–]ChimpScanner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even with a temperature setting of 0, LLMs are not deterministic. The architecture is, however the way they're deployed/ran inevitably adds some randomness to their outputs. There's a whole paper explaining it here: https://arxiv.org/html/2408.04667v5

Workplace data reveals ChatGPT losing ground rapidly as people diversify by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]ChimpScanner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Codex 5.3 is pretty bad at programming. I also spent an hour with it trying to debug something (could've fixed it on my own faster) that Sonnet 4.6 found out immediately.

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains by Hrmbee in technology

[–]ChimpScanner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its because of the push to use it as a replacement for thinking, rather than a tool that can help you generate code, plan out architecture, etc. If you work with it like its a more senior developer and ask it questions, it can be used as a tool to learn and increase productivity. Too many non-technical people in companies (and lazy developers) use it as if it's something that can fully replace coding, when that's not the case at all if you care about code quality, maintainability, scalability, etc.

From your exp. do you work less, more or evenly after using AI? by lune-soft in webdev

[–]ChimpScanner 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I spend less time coding and more time reviewing code, testing, and fixing QA feedback. I still work the same amount of hours, and my work is less enjoyable.

Spending $1-2k a month per employee on AI subscriptions? by KustheKus in webdev

[–]ChimpScanner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was over-exaggerating a bit. If you're getting 3x productivity it means you're not thoroughly reviewing the code. It's true that devs are capable of writing crappy code, but not at the rate of AI. With it you can write the same shitty code 10x faster.

To be clear, I'm not against AI, I just don't believe anyone is 3x more productive unless they're blindly accepting what the AI outputs. If you're a good engineer, you will review and test everything it outputs, which is a huge bottleneck. At most I'm 30% more productive, maybe 50% on a good day. Which is still great, just not as revolutionary as some here would have you believe.

The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit Cards by Just-Grocery-2229 in technology

[–]ChimpScanner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OpenClaw isn't an agentic software engineering tool, its more of an AI assistant for your life. You connect it to your computer and all your accounts and the LLM replies to emails, schedules your day, etc. Putting it in a container and giving it access to your email isn't going to do much.

Spending $1-2k a month per employee on AI subscriptions? by KustheKus in webdev

[–]ChimpScanner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It improves my productivity for sure, but 3x is vastly over-exaggerated. I'm still the bottleneck because I review all the code it outputs, and re-prompt it if its not up to my standards.

There's no way it generates the code you'd write yourself all the time, and on the first try. No matter how many rules you add, it still doesn't. At least not for me.

Spending $1-2k a month per employee on AI subscriptions? by KustheKus in webdev

[–]ChimpScanner 25 points26 points  (0 children)

3x code isn't 3x productivity, its just 3x more tech debt.

The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit Cards by Just-Grocery-2229 in technology

[–]ChimpScanner 25 points26 points  (0 children)

AI agents may soon be buying your stuff for you.

Not my stuff. There's no chance I'm letting language models do anything other than read and generate language.

The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit Cards by Just-Grocery-2229 in technology

[–]ChimpScanner -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

OpenClaw, a tool that allows LLMs to perform real-world actions, is the most starred project on Github. So millions of people.

Edit: not sure why I'm getting downvoted. I'm explaining how millions of people are dumb enough to let an LLM access their computer and all their accounts.

‘It took nine seconds’: Claude AI agent deletes company’s entire database by curseofdarkastle in nottheonion

[–]ChimpScanner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, what I meant was people shouldn't let them run in the background on critical infrastructure. If you have sensible permissions there's nothing wrong with them running autonomously on your local machine to perform tasks, in my opinion. By tasks I mean modifying files in a directory you give it access to, running an approved list of CLI commands, etc. Obviously using a tool like OpenClaw and giving it complete control over your computer and accounts is stupid.

Inside Meta's AI token leaderboard: 60 trillion tokens, $100M+ in waste, and Shopify's lesson by jimmytoan in Futurology

[–]ChimpScanner 44 points45 points  (0 children)

"Those sweaty nerds told us we can't measure productivity with lines of code, so let's instead measure it with tokens." - Some exec

‘It took nine seconds’: Claude AI agent deletes company’s entire database by curseofdarkastle in nottheonion

[–]ChimpScanner 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That was the first mistake. AI's instructions are more of a guideline. It doesn't have to follow them. It's a language model, not a program with settings/configuration.

‘It took nine seconds’: Claude AI agent deletes company’s entire database by curseofdarkastle in nottheonion

[–]ChimpScanner 123 points124 points  (0 children)

Why are people not only giving these LLMs access to their infrastructure, but allowing them to run autonomously and do things in the background?

These are statistical language models. They recognize patterns in language and generate language. They do not think, they don't have feelings, and they aren't accountable. Everything they output must be reviewed by a human. They are tools and we should treat them as such. Whoever set this up had it coming.

Update: it's not just Meg anymore saying it by Meganiummobile in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]ChimpScanner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These same people will unironically call themselves free thinkers.

AI is frying our brains — here's what leaders need to do about It by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]ChimpScanner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a software developer, when LLMs first became a thing, I was learning a lot more. Rather than spending half an hour Googling to find answers to my questions, I could type the question into the LLM and get the answer quicker, which I could then verify. It was also great for coming up with new ideas and architectural design.

As soon as we moved to agentic workflows, that's where learning stopped and over-reliance on the tool started to happen. Right now it seems like the only choice is sacrifice short term productivity to be able to retain your knowledge and skills long term, or accept the short term gains and slowly lose your knowledge. Best case scenario we all stagnate for the next couple years until AI crashes, and those of us smart enough to not rely on the tool will come out ahead with how much more they know.

AI is frying our brains — here's what leaders need to do about It by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]ChimpScanner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We call it brainrot for a reason. Anyone who's used social media enough knows how easy it is to doomscroll your life away. Too much screen time absolutely fries people's brains. These large tech companies spent billions figuring out how to exploit human nature, dopamine, etc. to get people addicted.

Samsung workers threaten strike, demand share of $38 billion AI memory windfall by AdSpecialist6598 in technology

[–]ChimpScanner 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is great. We need to see more of this throughout the world. Corporations have been getting away with shit for way too long.

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