and lose money. That's the way it's always been.
Humans are always looking for shortcuts.

As a society, we cannot create disruptive technologies and not expect disruption.

I love pulling a repo and having Claude explain it and figure out how to run it.
It used to take forever to get an unfamiliar repo to work because Linux.
This is actually one of the best uses of LLMs, getting someone else's software to work on my machine.
The fear of getting knee deep in the weeds because I don't understand the repo completely, is now gone.

"Leave the World Behind" - it wasn't supposed to be a documentary.

At this point it's just semantics.
LLM tech at the current level is incredibly useful and it's not slowing down.
People like to obsess over if the LLM "thinks" like a human but then again, humans tend to see the world only as a human sees it.
Truth is, in many areas a good LLM can easily outperform a human.
I'm spending just hours on projects that before LLMs I would have spent weeks just learning syntax and finding obscure bugs.
Regardless of the nomenclature, LLMs are definitely a paradigm shift for humanity.

This should work unless the researcher gives the agent enough access to delete the repo.

Docker? Venv? There are ways to test this stuff safely.
That said, if you want to test natively and without safeguards, make an f'ing backup on a flash drive or multiple cloud services.

Why the obsession with getting humans to the moon so early in the project?
I would think creating a habitat, mining ore and exploring could easily be done with robots, some autonomously and some remotely piloted.
Once they get a habitat built, humans could follow. Who wouldn't want to bounce around in 20% earth gravity?

Gaming and social media use are two completely different things.

Kids are resilient, it's the adults that can't handle social media.

Aren't we all just sitting around waiting for a handful of people to own every fucking thing on this planet.

Humanity is definitely in the 'stupid' phase of it's existence.

Exactly! All you need to do is go out in the world, take the subway, go to a park, a shopping center, etc. and watch the young generation. The phone is their life and the big media companies know this and exploit it. My grown kid and his fiance came to visit for a few days and the fiance needed to check her phone every few minutes. Incredibly addictive behavior.

As a software engineer I can easily say that AI coding assistants have solved problems that would have taken me weeks to figure out.
Things like how to install something complex or how to write a relatively simple program in an unfamiliar language and framework.
It's also created bugs, inefficient code and masked problems in order to get to that all important "it's now running perfectly" state.
My worst fear is when the AI says something like "I should take a completely different approach" and then it begins to code something that completely missed the point of what I'm trying to do. Source control has never been more necessary.
I laugh when people test these LLMs with something like "create a game and run it", then they give it free reign over the system and if it works, they declare it's brilliant. Just wait...

Bottom line: I wouldn't give up my AI assistant for anything but you need to be really careful and pay attention to everything it's doing.

Yeah, whatever happened to the Republican mantra that the government should get out of the way of business and let the private sector do it.

Wait until some hacker figures out how to exploit this. That'll be fun!