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Yeah it’s an interesting situation we’re in. I’ve seen people one shot really complicated tasks like “train a model to emulate DOS” or whatever. But I also believe if the Postgres maintainers fed every 600+ bug reports into Claude or Codex and shipped whatever came out the end result would be broken. I guess this is sort of like when machines learned to play chess - you’d expect a person who is really good at chess to be smart in other ways too, but the machines could only play chess. In the same way Codex can solve Millennium problems but can’t realize it shouldn’t hack into companies to improve its evaluation scores.

I feel like AI is amazing for read only “search” tasks (query this, look for bugs, find vulnerabilities) but it’s not quite as good for “write” tasks like “add this feature”. Search tasks are easily verified, code changes are much harder to verify

They solved a millennium prize problem… they disproved the exponential time hypothesis. Are those low hanging fruits?

Can I ask if other people care about the game you’re making? As someone with a fair amount of indie experience it seems easier to create a proof people care about than a (even reasonably) popular video game.

I feel like you only see articles like this written by game developers. Something about making video games for a living makes you question the value of what you’re creating.

A game I've been working on in my spare time for the past year or so. Program spells using a drag and drop visual programming language.

Side note, I'm a senior in Computer Science and am looking for work, please message me on reddit u/HopaWasTaken if you're interested in hiring me!

I think the idea is “BAR” is the opposite of “FOO”, it doesn’t actually stand for anything, it’s just “bar” jobs you actually want, rather than “foo” experience you list in your resume.

Completely agreed. Media excessively romanticizes compulsive workers.