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Comment by ben_w

4 hours ago

I'm trying to recall a quote. Some war where all defeats were censored in the news, possibly Paris was losing to someone. It was something along the lines of "I can't help but notice how our great victories keep getting closer to home".

Last year I tried using an LLM to make a joke language, I couldn't even compile the compiler the source code was so bad. Before Christmas, same joke language, a previous version of Claude gave me something that worked. I wouldn't call it "good", it was a joke language, but it did work.

So it sucks at writing a compiler? Yay. The gloriously indefatigable human mind wins another battle against the mediocre AI, but I can't help but notice how the battles keep getting closer to home.

> but I can't help but notice how the battles keep getting closer to home

This has been true for all of (known) human history. I’m gonna go ahead and make another bold prediction: tech will keep getting better.

The issue with this blog post is it’s mostly marketing.