The tech doesn't sound that interesting at all. Every AI Degen thread on 4chan and similar has included model fine tuning instructions for a few years now, for the express purpose of cloning an existing artists style.
I also find it interesting that they included a quote from an artist pointing out the hypocrisy of using an existing model, trained on unlicensed material, but never actually discussed that particular issue in the article.
I've heard a few people say I haven't written a single line of code since ...
What do people think of it?
I personal don't think that's a badge of honor. Aside from losing your coding skills you miss oppurtunities to generate AI pieces and connect them to existing systems that can't be feed into the AI. Plus making small changes is easier than having the AI make them without messing something else up.
I wouldn't say strictly speaking that I've written no code, but the amount of code I've written since "committing" to using Claude Code since February is absolutely miniscule.
I prefer having Claude make even small changes at this point since every change it makes ends up tweaking it to better understand something about my coding convention, standard, interpretation etc... It does pick up on these little changes and commits them to memory so that in the long run you end up not having to make any little changes whatsoever.
And to drive this point further, even prior to using LLMs, if I review someone's work and see even a single typo or something minor that I could probably just fix in a second, I still insist that the author is the one to fix it. It's something my mentor at Google did with me which at the time I kind of felt was a bit annoying, but I've come to understand their reason for it and appreciate it.
Sort of... Claude Code writes to a memory.md file that it uses to store important information across conversations. If I review mine it has plenty of details about things like coding convention, structure, and overall architecture of the application it's working on.
The second thing Claude Code does is when it reaches the end of its context window it /compact the session, which takes a summary of the current session, dumps it into a file, and then starts a new session with that summary. But it also retains logs of all the previous sessions that it can use and search through.
Looking over my session of Claude Code, out of the 256k tokens available, about 50k of these tokens are used among "memory" and session summaries, and 200k tokens are available to work with. The reality is that the vast majority of tokens Claude Code uses is for its own internal reasoning as opposed to being "front-end" facing so to speak.
Additionally given that ChatGPT Codex just increased its context length from 256k to 1 million tokens, I expect Anthropic will release an update within a month or so to catch up with their own 1 million token model.
1. The closer the context gets to full the worse it performs.
2. The more context it has the less it weights individual items.
That is Claude might learn you hate long functions and add a line about short functions. When that is the only thing in the function it is likely to follow other very closely. But when it’s 1 piece of such longer context, it is much more likely to ignore it.
3. Tokens cost money even you are currently being subsidized.
4. You have no idea how new models and new system prompt will perform with your current memory.md file.
5. Unlike learning something yourself, anything you teach Claude is likely to start being controlled by your employer. They might not let you take it with you when you go.
Caching has so many caveats. The cache expiration window is short, if you change document in the context it clears the cache, if you change anything in the prompt prefix it clears the cache. And there’s no reason to think that Anthropic will keep charging dramatically less for cached tokens on the future once they start trying to make a profit.
I haven’t typed a line of code in like six months but I still review all production code and stay very connected to the codebase. I don’t feel my skills have withered at all.
Meeting new people and transforming that to having people around is a journey you haven't started.
I would use this time wisely. There are opportunities that weren't available to you before. Those free weekends can be spent doing something productive.
Find your goals and go after them. You are in the best spot don't waste it.
Just because you have every instruction manual doesn't mean you can follow and perform the steps or have time to or can adapt to a real world situation.
I think that a what a lot of anti-AI folks are trying to argue without saying it explicitly is that it already is a systemic problem. They're not necessarily against the technology on its own, but against the systemic problems it would introduce if society doesn't take a stance against it.
When you work long enough you'll find it. Places where changing software is risky you can end up waiting for approvals. Places where another company purchased yours or you are getting shutdown soon and there is no new work. Sometimes you end up on a system that they want to replace but they never get around to it.
Being overworked is sometimes better than being underworked. Sometimes the reserve is better. They both have challenges.
Outside of purchased-and-being-shutdown, these are still frequently "we want to do things but we're scared of breaking things" situations, not "we don't want to do anything." Even if the things they want to do are just "we want to move off this 90s codebase before everyone who knows how it works is dead."
In that sort of high-fear, change-adverse environment "get rid of all the devs and let the AI do it" may not be the most compelling sales pitch to leadership. ("Use it to port the code faster so we can spend more time on the migration plan and manual testing" might have better luck.)
Price of power goes up and the local people are not connected to the benefits. You might think they will receive a lot of money in taxes but you would be wrong because they have tax breaks.
Because on-site powerplants owned by datacenter operators are not "just another supplier".
The threat is: This "datacenter power" disincentives buildout of "free" powerplants (by eating up significant demand at very low margins thanks to basically vertical integration); this slows down buildout of "normal" infrastructure (possibly both grid connectivity and power), and the electrical energy market becomes worse for consumers than it is now.
I personally think all of this is very speculative for now, but allowing industry to rely on the grid (which they still would!) while almost exclusively "buying" their own power is a risky proposition from a consumer perspective.
Not to mention the danger of energy production, even nuclear, becoming resource-constrained to the point where datacenter power plants leave no room for municipal plants. We're seeing it happen with consumer hardware; make no mistake on who will get preference.
The answer is to remove the parents. Give birth and let the state raise the child. The parents continue to work and live childless without the costs and responsibilities. Society pays and gives this group an equal playing field.
So Woman have to be pregnant for 9 months for only the state to go take the baby away.
Are you gonna suggest that State enforces procreation too?
This "answer" that you are saying is this close to being an Eugenics project. A govt. which has its officers arrest/detain babies because of their race and you are saying that these are the people that the babies should be left?
Also consider these people in your answer to be the slaves of the govt. because we live in a free world and yet propaganda can be so effective. I can't imagine what the propaganda can be if State raises the child.
Yes, Instead of trying to make the economy affordable so that childcare can be affordable, we go ahead and let the states raise our children.
Has even the notion of affordability become so foreign that we have forgotten it can exist?
I sincerely hope you were joking with this message and this wasn't the first thing which came into your mind.
Kinda like in Brave New World, or The Giver - or, for that matter, in hundreds of orphanages in real life?
This doesn't really work either. Having been loved by an attachment figure (usually a parent) seems to be essential to normal psychosocial development. Without it, kids can't really form bonds or groups. They never learn to trust, and without the ability to trust, they can't work in concert with other people. They end up violent and criminal.
If you tried to do this society-wide, society would collapse. Everybody would simply try to grab what they could and kill everybody else.
The demand to produce something in an artists style is low. The volume required to make it interesting to artist isn't present.
AI adoption and pushed back is greatest with artists you would be better off asking for money to shutdown AI.
The tech itself sounds interesting and would love that writeup.
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