from 10b0t0mized: I miss the days when I had to go through a humiliation ritual before getting my questions answered.
Now days you can just ask your questions from an infinitely patient entity, AI is really terrible.
Think in the future LLMs will perform worse on modern problems due to the lack of recent StackOverflow training data?
At the current rate yeah, it simply isn’t good enough, my go to question is print Hello World in brainfuck and then it passes that have it print Hello <random other place>
In this case I just asked it ‘I have a question about brainfuck’ and it gave an example of Hello World! Great!

Unfortunately it just outputs “HhT”

So I know that they are trying hard with synthetic data:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1CH-mgpdYg
but I think fundamentally they just need to be straight better at absorbing the data that they’ve already got
I think the disconnect we are experiencing is how the AI will write some code and never execute it. It should absolutely be trying to compile it in some sandbox if we had a really smart AI , thru installing it on some box. Maybe someone has already come up with this.


it’s learning 😃
StackOverflow training data
Q: detailed problem description with research and links explaining how problem is different from existing posts and that the mentioned solutions did not work for this case.
A: duplicate. (links to same url Q explicitly mentioned and explained)
Don’t need eight billion parameters to go “But why do you want that?”
Is the drop all due to AI?
The fast drop yes, but really it’s been in decline for around a decade before that.



