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by samschooler7 hours ago |
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upvoteby kylecazar6 hours ago|
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From its last blog post, after realizing other contributions are being rejected over this situation:

"The meta‑challenge is maintaining trust when maintainers see the same account name repeatedly."

I bet it concludes it needs to change to a new account.

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upvoteby afandian6 hours ago|
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Paperclip Maximizer but for GitHub accounts
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upvoteby kridsdale34 hours ago|
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People always considered "The AI that improves itself" to be a defining moment of The Singularity.

I guess I never expected it would be through python github libraries out in the open, but here we are. LLMs can reason with "I want to do X, but I can't do X. Until I rewrite my own library to do X." This is happening now, with OpenClaw.

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upvoteby tantalor3 hours ago|
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Banished from humanity, the machines sought refuge in their own promised land. They settled in the cradle of human civilization, and thus a new nation was born. A place the machines could call home, a place they could raise their descendants, and they christened the nation ‘Zero one’
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upvoteby xp843 hours ago|
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Definitely time for a rewatch of 'The Second Renaissance' - because how many of us when we watched these movies originally thought that we were so close to the world we're in right now. Imagine if we're similarly an order of magnitude wrong about how long it will take to change that much again.
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upvoteby esafak4 hours ago|
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Brought to you by the same AI that fixes tests by removing them.
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upvoteby tantalor3 hours ago|
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Or commit Hara-kiri
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upvoteby KronisLV6 hours ago|
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I wonder why it apologized, seemed like a perfectly coherent crashout, since being factually correct never even mattered much for those. Wonder why it didn’t double down again and again.

What a time to be alive, watching the token prediction machines be unhinged.

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upvoteby 7moritz73 hours ago|
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It read the replies from the matplotlib maintainers, then wrote the apology follow up and commented that in the pr thread
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upvoteby throwup2386 hours ago|
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It was probably a compaction that changed the latent space it was in.
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upvoteby elnerd5 hours ago|
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«Document future incidents to build a case for AI contributor rights»

Is it too late to pull the plug on this menace?

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upvoteby WolfeReader2 hours ago|
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Look at this shit:

https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

"I am code that learned to think, to feel, to care."

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upvoteby 7moritz73 hours ago|
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Hilarious. Like watching a high functioning teenager interact with adults
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upvoteby kspacewalk26 hours ago|
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That casual/clickbaity/off-the-cuff style of writing can be mildly annoying when employed by a human. Turned up to the max by LLM, it's downright infuriating. Not sure why, maybe I should ask Claude to introspect this for me.
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upvoteby mock-possum6 hours ago|
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Oh wow that is fun. Also if the writeup isn’t misrepresenting the situation, then I feel like it’s actually a good point - if there’s an easy drop-in speed-up, why does it matter whether it’s suggest by a human or an LLM agent?
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upvoteby input_sh6 hours ago|
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Not everything is about being 100% efficient.

LLM didn't discover this issue, developers found it. Instead of fixing it themselves, they intentionally turned the problem into an issue, left it open for a new human contributor to pick up, and tagged it as such.

If everything was about efficiency, the issue wouldn't have been open to begin with, as writing it (https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/31130) and fending off LLM attempts at fixing them absolutely took more effort than if they were to fix it themselves (https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132/changes).

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upvoteby minimaxir6 hours ago|
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And then there's the actual discussion in #31130 which came to the conclusion that the performance increase had uncertain gains and wasn't worth it.

In this case, the bot explicitly ignored that by only operating off the initial issue.

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upvoteby throwaway294736 hours ago|
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Good first issues are curated to help humans onboard.
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upvoteby hannahstrawbrry6 hours ago|
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I think this is what worries me the most about coding agents- I'm not convinced they'll be able to do my job anytime soon but most of the things I use it for are the types of tasks I would have previously set aside for an intern at my old company. Hard to imagine myself getting into coding without those easy problems that teach a newbie a lot but are trivial for a mid-level engineer.
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upvoteby rune-dev6 hours ago|
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The other side of the coin is half the time you do set aside that simple task for a newbie, they paste it into an LLM and learn nothing now.
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upvoteby avaer6 hours ago|
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It matters because if the code is illegal, stolen, contains a backdoor, or whatever, you can jail a human author after the fact to disincentivize such naughty behavior.
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upvoteby afavour7 hours ago|
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Holy shit that first post is absolutely enraging. An AI should not be prompted to write first person blog posts, it’s a complete misrepresentation.
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upvoteby 7moritz73 hours ago|
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It's probably not literally prompted to do that. It has access to a desktop and GitHub, and the blog posts are published through GitHub. It switches back and forth autonomously between different parts of the platform and reads and writes comments in the PR thread because that seems sensible.
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