If you configure vimdiff as the difftool in your git config, just doing a `git diff` would show you the diff for each file sequentially.

  > Distillation can be legitimate: AI labs use it to create smaller, cheaper models for their customers.

What exactly makes these accounts ^fraudulent^ ...did they not pay Anthropic for the service ?

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Or to go a level deeper, if you have 2 occurrences of rename(2) from the stdlibc ...

rename('a', 'b'); rename('c', 'd');

...and the compiler decides on out of order execution or optimizing by scheduling on different cpus, you can get a and d existing at the same time.

The reason it won't happen in the example you posted is the shell ensures the atomicity (by not forking the second mv until the wait() on the first returns)

> This suggests that as companies transition to more AI code writing with human supervision, humans may not possess the necessary skills to validate and debug AI-written code if their skill formation was inhibited by using AI in the first place.

I'm reminded of "Kernighan's lever" :

> Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

AI is writing code in the cleverest way possible which then introduces cognitive load for anyone who hasn't encountered these patterns previously. Although, one might say that AI would also assist in the debugging, you run the risk of adding further complexity in the process of 'fixing' the bugs and before you know it you have a big stinking ball of mud.

Sure, it might have been used as a delicate lever previously but in its current brazen form is just bad diplomacy.

> The people who do the "*nix" cargo cult thing have never seen a SunOS machine and don't even know what a HPUX is.

The meaning of words evolve over time though. Text is still broken into lines by "carriage return/line feeds" and is written on "hard disk" split up in "sectors".,. Over time people using these would not have seen a typewriter or even know what a platter is but may still use it to communicate effectively.

And all at significant opportunity cost (in terms of computing and investment)

If it was as life altering as they claim where's that novel work of art (in your examples..of code, music or literature) that truly could not have been produced without GenAI and fundamentally changed the art form ?

Surely, with all that ^increased productivity^ we'd have seen the impact equivalent of linux, apache, nginx, git, redis, sqlite, ... Etc being released every couple of weeks instead of yet another VSCode clone./s

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Unix%20l...

Furthermore, w.r.t the points you raised - it's a matter of scale and utility. Compared to everything that has come before, GenAI is spectacularly inefficient in terms of utility per unit of compute (however you might want to define these). There hasn't been a tangible nett good for society that has come from it and I doubt there would be. The egarness and will to throw money and resources at this surpasses the crypto mania which was just as worthless.

Even if you consider Rob a hypocrite , he isn't alone in his frustration and anger at the degradation of the promise of Open Culture.

They and their supporters downplay Buddhist followers by pretending that the lived experiences of these Buddhist (on in general the non-hindu) don't exist.

Why assume this hasn't already happened?

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