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Comment Re:what's wrong with you people? (Score 1) 38

I don't think a grant of one share of a specific stock will be a particularly educational event. I think generally in school a teach will, at some point, do a more educational exercise where students are actually doing mock trading and, critically, trying to evaluate different companies and make predictions on where things will go.

Comment Re:This is interesting legally (Score 1) 27

Yeah, that latter one basically focused on the fact the output looked verbatim like the 'training' material, so the judgement was that AI was more an excuse than a demonstrable transformative thing.

Note in some other case I recall the AI company arguing that the ingest and training of material is 'transformative' but the engines could be used to violate copyright, but then the *operator* would be on the hook for infringement, as the operator supplied the prompt that resulted in infringement.

There was also that OpenAI deal with Disney that was going to let Disney characters be used in OpenAI output but that got dropped. Lots of mixed assumptions in play with the AI companies asserting that they don't need permission, getting permission or forcing permission anyway, and shifting responsibility to the users.

Comment Re:Why even use source control? (Score 1) 107

Nowhere in this do I see how maintaining the history in this manner even benefits AI. I haven't seen evidence that it can benefit from an insanely over-granular change history.

This is not debating the volume of code, it's the granularity of delivering it as tiny 'changesets'. Just because you *can* create a system that can partition changes into 3 second intervals does not mean there's any value for machine nor human in doing so.

Comment Re:Anthropic has lost the plot (Score 1) 107

To start, the condescension is hardly helpful.

The point stands, you have to consider the audience for the change tracking. How much granularity is really useful even for the AI models themselves to digest? Certainly no human will digest, but I also don't think the AI is going to be prioritizing putting hundreds of thousands of change history entries into the context window on the off chance that it is relevant to the task at hand.

It seems like a solution to pretend around change management while abandoning any actual use of change management, by human or machines.

Comment Re:Anthropic has lost the plot (Score 1) 107

Though in that scenario, it seems bad or useless for the AI as well, as the bloated change history is a waste of context window. Unless they just ignore it in which case what was the point in bothering.

But perhaps it is just another attempt to normalize "human shouldn't be in the loop" mindset, the new toy is but an excuse to say you *should* be having a codebase that is being changed every couple of seconds without bound.

Comment Re: What Is The Point Of This Story? (Score 1) 107

I just cannot wait for that day. When people have a least a *little* less incentive for certain folks to butt in on other people's jobs and tell them how it should be done, despite never even doing nor using an AI to do said job in a serious capacity.

This story triggered a colleague to tell me that I need to stop using git, despite never having used *any* version control scheme nor even using an AI to generate code, just super armchair software development. I do not understand that mindset of people that invested in the nitty gritty of software development without the will to actually do software development.

Comment Re:Why even use source control? (Score 1) 107

A changeset history is only so useful compared to analysis of the code as it is. Even pretty large context windows need prioritization. I would think an overly granular changeset history would be a really low prioriity.

Compared to more aggregated changes into fewer changesets, where the history would be probably more digestable, even for AI consumption.

Comment Re:If you skip the noise (Score 1) 107

We can't actually know if it is 'actually quite good', because we have only their own self-assessment to go on.

No way to debate how it compares with git partial/shallow clones in broader circumstances. They don't want to share it, they just want to use the concept to fluff their image. It might be amazing, it might be trash, impossible to say anything substantial based on this.

Comment Re:Bosses' folly (Score 1) 107

I know a team that has gone very hard on slopping it up AI, though they just had a flamewar where the AI bros bitched that the more careful people were holding them back by insisting on human review and rejecting merge requests where the human didn't understand what they were submitting.

The thing is, this team was already pumping out shit code for years, so in their case the AI might actually be compelling. Infested by PHB thinking of 'hire many people in random geography, to change each year as different geographies are proven to be shit when you only pay bottom of the barrel'. They have been rotating cheap labor forever hoping for the magical geo where the cheapest people are still skilled (no such geography exists, the bottom of the barrel in any geo is trash). So AI is next on their search.

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