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Comment by threeseed

6 days ago

People said the same about VB style coding then low-code and now AI.

They have been wrong every time and will continue to be wrong.

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storus  6 days ago

This feels different; I asked DeepSeek R1 to give me an autoregressive image generation code in pytorch and it did a marvelous job. Similar for making a pytorch model for a talking lip-synced face; those two would take me weeks to do, AI did it in a few minutes.

Autoregressive LLMs still have some major issues like over-dependency on the first few generated tokens and the problems with commutative reasoning due to one-sided masked attention but those issues are slowly getting fixed.

  • threeseed  6 days ago

    People used to tell me all the amazing things no-code and low-code was able to do as well.

    And at the end of the day they went nowhere. Because (a) they will never be perfect for every use and (b) they abstract you from understanding the problem and solution. So often it will be easier to just write the code from scratch.