Comment by gr_norm
1 hour ago
If so, where are all the new features in the open-source projects I use? Why hasn't GIMP replicated Photoshop? Why hasn't CUDA been fully reverse-engineered as an open source toolchain? These are unreasonable expectations, but only in response to unreasonable claims of productivity. What before took ten years should now only take one, right?
It seems likely that the gains from generating tons of code are being offset by the debt incurred to understanding what you're doing. We see lots of greenfield projects one-shotted with GPT or GLM or whatnot, but very little on the side of projects with long-term maintenance goals. This is telling, to me, that the _effective_ gains are much lower than perceived (it's lots of fun to see the thing crank out code at breakneck pace, probably contributing to this). Still quite nice, and very useful, but not a totally new paradigm.
> Why hasn't GIMP replicated Photoshop?
My guess is that open source folks overindex on being anti-AI.
They don't though, very few people were anti AI in the early days. Open source projects were largely initially very interested in LLM usage, and generally had a pro AI contribution policy. This changed when it did not help their lives
Eg if you check out Godot, initially they were cool with LLM code, and then had to clamp down on it because it was not leading to anything good
Yeah, why hasn't AMD added every single CUDA feature lol
Why are Amazon and Walmarts mobile apps still janky crap that costs them money? Why does Meta still have four redundant, broken sign-up flows before you can give them money to advertise?
Wherever these “10000x” engineering gains are… I’m wondering why they’re only for shit nobody sees or touches.