Comment by thatsabadlook
2 days ago
Yup. These are people who have gone full Claude. The dopamine seeking is at previously unseen levels. they think this pr is some factual item that means something so they post it on HN as click bait. But no it only means something to a fulltime ai slopper
If the Ai came back to me with a 1600x improvement (still in pgrust readme), I would be highly suspicious of the Ai and the code it wrote
The hype factory must grow, I suppose, though I would prefer if the model makers would stop with this "complete the task by any and every means possible" and replace it with "I don't know, I should ask or do more learning"
At least they have added a test which looks to make sure the Ai doesn't do it again... if you need this kind of test, something is wrong
https://github.com/malisper/pgrust/blob/38634b408dea373f3944...
I've noticed it with a lot of random stuff i've been trying
I'll tell claude, "write an implementation of an AAC decoder that is 50% faster than ffmpeg"
and it will do it! Amazing!
Then i tell it "hmm ffmpeg has been really well optimised, are you sure?" and it says "oh, i was running our code directly but running ffmpeg executables with loads of overhead, ffmpeg is actually 50% faster"
You can't compare optimizations done on audio encoding/decoding (often hand written assembly) to something like PostgreSQL which has many moving/inefficient parts.
The optimizations on PostgreSQL are real if done correctly, it's just a very big project.
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Transformers will def get us to AGI /s
My new definition for The Singularity is not about Ai intelligence, it is about humans handing over critical thinking regardless of Ai capabilities
Ai companions are where I put the highest p(doom)
If I saw that test in a PR I would not only reject the PR and ask a lot of questions but someone would likely take a forced vacation to deslop their brain.
that requires someone (1) using PRs (2) looking at the PR
the project has 3 mega commits of claude slop
https://github.com/malisper/pgrust/commits/main/
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> If the Ai came back to me with a 1600x improvement (still in pgrust readme), I would be highly suspicious of the Ai and the code it wrote
Depends on who wrote the original code. With postgres its sus, but if it's another AI...I wouldn't be surprised. I also saw code writtem by humans that is a result of "I can't figure out how to make this safe and concurrent, so imma just place giant mutex here", and it like 100 lines change to fix that.
These invectives are verging on slurs at this point. You don’t know anything about the chemical seeking disposition of the author who is actually here in the comments, so why don’t we just stick to facts instead of loading posts with hyperbole and name calling? All it’s does is invite name calling and hyperbole back. You can express your frustration in ways more conducive to productive discourse.
The post is garbage. There shouldn't even be discourse other then "this is what slop looks like over the course of a few months". So that's what I offered. The best anyone can do
I see you're new here. In situations where you feel that way, it's customary to flag and move on.