Call me when a disinterested third-party says so. PR announcements by the very people who have a large stake in our belief in their product are unreliable.
This company predicts software development is a dead occupation yet ships a mobile chat UI that appears to be perpetually full of bugs, and has had a number of high profile incidents.
"This company predicts software development is a dead occupation"
Citation needed?
Closest I've seen to that was Dario saying AI would write 90% of the code, but that's very different from declaring the death of software development as an occupation.
The clear disdain he has for the profession is evident in any interview he gives. Him saying 90% of the code was not a signal to us, but it was directed to his fellow execs, that they can soon get rid of 90% of the engineers and some other related professions.
I think it's pretty clear that Anthrophic was the main AI lab pushing code automation right from the start. Their blog posts, everything just targeted code generation. Even their headings for new models in articules would be "code". My view if they weren't around, even if it would of happened eventually, code would of been solved with cadence to other use cases (i.e. gradually as per general demand).
AI Engineers aren't actually SWE's per se; they use code but they see it as tedious non-main work IMO. They are happy to automate their compliment and raise in status vs SWE's who typically before all of this had more employment opportunities and more practical ways to show value.
What quotes? This is an AI summary that may or may not have summarized actual quotes from the researchers, but I don't see a single quote in this article, or a source.
Why are you commenting if you can't even take a few minutes to read this ? It's quite bizarre. There's a quote and repo for Cheeseman, and a paper for Biomni.
There is only one quote in the entire article, though:
> Cheeseman finds Claude consistently catches things he missed. “Every time I go through I’m like, I didn’t notice that one! And in each case, these are discoveries that we can understand and verify,” he says.
Pretty vague and not really quantifiable. You would think an article making a bold claim would contain more than a single, hand-wavy quote from an actual scientist.
>Pretty vague and not really quantifiable. You would think an article making a bold claim would contain more than a single, hand-wavy quote from an actual scientist.
Why? What purpose would quotes serve better than a paper with numbers and code? Just seems like nitpicking here. The article could have gone without a single quote (or had several more) and it wouldn't really change anything. And that quote is not really vague in the context of the article.
The point is to look at who is making a claim and asking what they hope to gain from it. This is orthogonal to what the thing is, really. It’s just basic skepticism.
Even if the article is accurate, it still makes sense to question the motives of the publisher. Especially if they’re selling a product.
> Call me when a disinterested third-party says Call me when a disinterested third-party says so
Saying what? This describes three projects that use an Anthropic’s product. Do you need a third party to confirm that? Or do you need someone to tell you if they are legit?
There are hundreds of announcements by vendors ơn HN. Did you object to them all or only when your own belief is against them?
