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"What are you talking about, I haven't seen a 'hallucination' from Claude in forever."

"No you haven't recognized a hallucination in forever" fell out of my mouth so fast I just derailed the entire meeting.
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@prettygood
did your sloppy coworkers come up with any coherent responses?
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@prettygood @moses_izumi They admitted they are a slopper? I actually have seen that a lot...

I don't totally understand that frame of mind, but I actually have seen it a lot. Maybe me not understanding that is why I am broke. :-P

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@prettygood I worry about this too. I want to make software but either I know how to recognise hallucinations and therefore probably don't need AI, or I don't and therefore will probably end up producing slop if I use it. So I think I'll learn to code the old-fashioned way instead.

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@prettygood Or pay someone to do it. Or pay someone to both write the software for me and teach me how they are doing it at the same time. I think that might be a good idea. What do you think?

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@light I'm gonna be frank, I think humans are going to write code only as a hobby, not professionally. The code generation tools are too good at this point, and only getting better, for there to be guys writing code for a living anymore. There will still be software engineering, and we'll still need people who understand how things work, but the act of writing the actual code is going to be automated. This is just supposition and prediction, but having used the tools, I can't write better code than the tool does. I can find bugs, and design structure and do the *engineering* parts, but production wise there's no contest, and that's all that a business is going to care about.
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@prettygood
So, the code you write is more likely to have bugs?

If I use genAI to write, say, a Freenet dapp for a trustless democratic forum, how would I find the bugs due to hallucinations if I don't know how to code?
I could get someone else to help me. Would you be interested? How much would you want for it, if anything? I don't have any XMR or other cryptocurrency, so we would have to dox ourselves to each other if so.

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@light I don't code on my own time beyond shell scripts, I don't feel the need to make anything new, I already have everything I want and need, so I just use scripts to bolt those things together
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