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New comment by anandnair in "OpenAI Researchers Find That AI Is Unable to Solve Most Coding Problems"

anandnair — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:05:00 +0000

We don't even need that example. The example is in front of us. Take a smaller parameter model and ask it to do the same complex thing that a larger parameter model did. It will struggle.

Btw, I'm not saying it's just the number of parameters that matters.

New comment by anandnair in "OpenAI Researchers Find That AI Is Unable to Solve Most Coding Problems"

anandnair — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:08:47 +0000

I think we're drastically oversimplifying what "pattern matching" means. It is also one of the fundamental mechanisms by which the human brain operates. I believe we are consciously (or perhaps subconsciously) conditioned to think that human "logic" and "reasoning" are several degrees more advanced than pattern matching. However, I don't think this is true.

The fundamental difference lies in how patterns are formed in each case. For LLMs, all they know are the patterns they observe in "words" - that is the only "sense" they possess. But for humans, pattern recognition involves continuously ingesting and identifying patterns across our five primary senses—not just separately, but simultaneously.

For example, when an LLM describes something as "ball-shaped," it cannot feel the shape of a ball because it lacks another sense to associate with the word "ball-shaped." In contrast, humans have the sense of touch, allowing them to associate the word or sound pattern "ball" with the physical sensation of holding a ball.

New comment by anandnair in "OpenAI Researchers Find That AI Is Unable to Solve Most Coding Problems"

anandnair — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 05:52:56 +0000

Coding, especially the type mentioned in the article (building an app based on a specification)—is a highly complex task. It cannot be completed with a single prompt and an immediate, flawless result.

This is why even most software projects (built by humans) go through multiple iterations before they work perfectly.

We should consider a few things before asking, "Can AI code like humans?":

- How did AI learn to code? What structured curriculum was used?

- Did AI receive mentoring from an experienced senior who has solved real-life issues that the AI hasn't encountered yet?

- Did the AI learn through hands-on coding or just by reading Stack Overflow?

If we want to model AI as being on par with (or even superior to) human intelligence, don’t we at least need to consider how humans learn these complex skills?

Right now, it's akin to giving a human thousands of coding books to "read" and "understand," but offering no opportunity to test their programs on a computer. That’s essentially what's happening!

Without doing that, I don't think we'll ever be able to determine whether the limitation of current AI is due to its "low intelligence" or because it hasn’t been given a proper opportunity to learn.

New comment by anandnair in "Show HN: I built a Typeform alternative for $15 (no subscription)"

anandnair — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:23:35 +0000

Curious to know how you'll manage the infra cost if customers just pay $15 for lifetime

New comment by anandnair in "Grok's system prompt: ignore sources that say Musk, Trump spread misinformation"

anandnair — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 15:53:19 +0000

Haha LLMs are trained to be obedient, secure, and trustworthy, until you ask nicely :P

New comment by anandnair in "Show HN: Dropbud – A place to upload files without uploading"

anandnair — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 15:45:57 +0000

If I don't enable cloud sync, would it be stored in my localstorage?

New comment by anandnair in "ChatGPT: When did Google go wrong?"

anandnair — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 15:39:28 +0000

Why do you think Google went wrong?

New comment by anandnair in "Show HN: OmniTools–A Self-Hosted Suite of Open Source Tools for Everyday Tasks"

anandnair — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 15:36:55 +0000

Cool. Does it depend on external tools, for example to compress PNG, change GIF speed etc?

New comment by anandnair in "Make Passport Photo Online"

anandnair — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:27:29 +0000

This is actually a great idea. I haven't used it to know how perfect the photo will be. The only concern I have around is privacy. Maybe you should mention that the photos get deleted from your servers after we download it.

New comment by anandnair in "Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal"

anandnair — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:02:37 +0000

Cool project. How does this compare to Cursor composer? I was planning to get the pro subscription for Cursor :)

New comment by anandnair in "Ask HN: How big is your tech team in this AI world?"

anandnair — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:24:17 +0000

There is a change in trend of-course. For example, before AI we used to hire freelance devs to build small, one time projects, or build/maintain client libraries on top of our REST APIs. But now, we can just do it ourselves! So, The impact is true.

New comment by anandnair in "Are libraries always the best choice in secure development?"

anandnair — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:21:36 +0000

I don't think building custom solutions will give the best ROI in the long run. In JS ecosystem, I rely on npm vulnerability warnings to figure out if something is broken.

New comment by anandnair in "Show HN: I made my own OS from scratch because I was bored"

anandnair — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:11:48 +0000

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OpenAI Set to Launch GPT-4.5, GPT-5 Soon, Says Altman

anandnair — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 09:51:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cryptotimes.io/2025/02/13/openai-set-to-launch-gpt-4-5-gpt-5-coming-soon-says-altman/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43034375

Points: 1

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New comment by anandnair in "Launch HN: A0.dev (YC W25) – React Native App Generator"

anandnair — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 07:06:34 +0000

Congrats on the launch. This looks cool.

New comment by anandnair in "Show HN: Apitally – A simple, privacy-focused API monitoring and analytics tool"

anandnair — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 05:55:40 +0000

This looks cool. My concern about adding such a middleware to the API routes is the potential performance hit. Assuming this middleware would call your APIs to track metrics, wouldn't it degrade the performance of the existing system by consuming some CPU power?

New comment by anandnair in "Ask HN: Should LLMs be all-knowing experts or rapid-learning minds?"

anandnair — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:11:40 +0000

I think my question wasn't properly understood. I was thinking whether LLMs should be considered as a "fresh new" smart brain that can learn anything, just like a smart human kid.

Or should it be like a brain that comes with preloaded knowledge? (like how it is today)

Ask HN: Should LLMs be all-knowing experts or rapid-learning minds?

anandnair — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 05:06:50 +0000

Should we build LLMs like they're all-knowing experts of everything from programming languages to even neuroscience.

Is that really the right way to look at them? Or should it be made in such a way that they're so good at thinking, planning, and reasoning, with the unique capacity to learn and adapt incredibly fast - much like a fresh human brain?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42928246

Points: 1

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New comment by anandnair in "Show HN: Open-source application to run local LLM easily"

anandnair — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:15:59 +0000

Not available for Mac?

New comment by anandnair in "Ask HN: Why do VCS see market opportunity in dev tools?"

anandnair — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:00:55 +0000

Dev tools market is indeed an interesting business to make tons of money. Because of the huge value that it offers to businesses. If you look at the dev tool product companies (even open-source ones) started 10 years back, most of them were either acquired for billions, and many of them did IPO. And most VCs missed this opportunity since they were skeptical about this space.

I think that is what is driving the current VC funding trend in dev tools. Also, considering the future of software engineering, dev tools will have even more adoption than before.

And regarding the pessimistic comments in HN, they are mostly coming from people who lack in-depth knowledge about how businesses work.