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There's nothing insane about writing a de/serializer for an open source format with tests telling you every time you get it wrong to fix in a loop. Insane would be if they were willing to entrust critical production data to their vibecoded replacements (in multiple ways).

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Most of the SQLite test suite, TH3, is not open source or available to the public. You need to pay an undisclosed amount of money to access it, which would seem to defeat the already dubious proposition of vibe-coding a SQLite clone.

https://sqlite.org/th3.html

> which would seem to defeat the already dubious proposition of vibe-coding a SQLite clone.

For an individual, but for OpenAI this would be a trivial marketing expense. The purpose is not actually to replace SQLite but to be able to claim your software is capable of it, to perpetuate the ongoing mania.

I would think OpenAI licensed the tests, their availability might have been a reason for picking sqlite for this "benchmark" in the first place

OpenAI paid $15 mil to solve a math problem

If you had told me five years ago that OpenAI was going to be able to do this at all, much less that they were going to do it routinely as a test of new AI models, I would have thought you were being so unrealistically optimistic that I might have suggested that you up your dosage of antipsychotic drugs.

I mean, if you had said they definitely would not be able to do this, I would also have thought you were probably kind of stupid. But we're definitely on the path that looks like AIs keep getting smarter with no limit in sight.

> with no limit in sight

https://xkcd.com/605/

Extrapolating from a one-day change from zero to one: "As you can see, by late next month you'll have over four dozen husbands. Better get a bulk rate on wedding cake."

You cannot seriously think that this is relevant. You're just enacting an unthinking conditioned response of replying with that comic to cases where people can't tell when an increasing quantity is going to stop increasing, even though you can't tell either.

What's wild is that these AI-psychosis people will be running with the "no end in sight" and "exponential improvements" take for years and even decades to come. Even as LLM technology goes through an economic bust and stagnation.

It's like a doomsday cult in reverse.

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