I could retort with another gotcha argument, but instead of doing that perhaps we can do better than that?
An attempt: They are bad reasoning machines that already are useful in a few domains and they're improving faster than evolutionary speeds. So even if they're not useful today in a domain relevant to you there's a significant possibility they might be in a few months.
AlphaEvolve would have been scifi a decade ago.
"It's like if a squirrel started playing chess and instead of "holy shit this squirrel can play chess!" most people responded with "But his elo rating sucks""
I could retort with another gotcha argument, but instead of doing that perhaps we can do better than that?
An attempt: They are bad reasoning machines that already are useful in a few domains and they're improving faster than evolutionary speeds. So even if they're not useful today in a domain relevant to you there's a significant possibility they might be in a few months. AlphaEvolve would have been scifi a decade ago.
"It's like if a squirrel started playing chess and instead of "holy shit this squirrel can play chess!" most people responded with "But his elo rating sucks""
I can think of tons of uses for a bad reasoning machine as long as it’s cheap enough.
Which those things aren't. In fact they cost considerably more than hiring someone.
LLMs cost significantly less than even a high schooler
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