Better than 90% of the slop that gets ladled into the front page, bravo. The world needs more Clock Simulator-like projects.

Thank you very much!

It’s AI booster fanfic, but it’s well-written so kudos. The charts are slop though.

This team is at Stanford, unless I’m reading the article incorrectly. Still awful that the US pulled out of WHO.

Ah yep, I read the story elsewhere earlier that insinuated it was a team outside of the US

That's the sad part. Empiricism is scarce when people and companies are incentivized to treat their AI practices as trade secrets. It's fundamentally distinct from prior software movements which were largely underwritten by open, accessible, and permissively-licensed technologies.

I don't see people treating AI practices as trade secrets. It's just the nature of a non-deterministic system.

Can you update the title? "Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?" sounds like you're seeking verifiable data, but in your post you're soliciting advice for how to use these tools. I clicked hoping for empiricism and got the same hamster wheel of "you're holding it wrong" that I see in every social media comment section about AI tooling.

Heads up: I clicked a tile and got the hamsterdance music pretty loud in my ears. Serves me right for being distracted during a meeting but still, sound warning :)

...was your mic muted during this meeting??

Example?

The narrative structure of the article would be brilliant satire but I'm 90% certain that the author is serious about the conclusions they drew at the end, which I find sad.

Yea I find it a bit condescending. Humans ain't robots, duh!

And the world wouldn't function if everyone operated at the exact same abstraction level of ideas.

The big difference is accountability. An LLM has no mortality; it has no use for fear, no embodied concept of reputation, no persistent values. Everything is ephemera. But they are useful! More useful than humans in some scenarios! So there's that. But when I consider the purpose of conversation, utility is only one consideration among many.

Framing obvious/old ideas in a novel way can be helpful. "Collaboration" is a meme that makes it easy to view all collaboration-shaped exchanges as helpful and the opposite as harmful. A memorable counter-narrative can help people think more critically when faced with an applicable situation.

I don't think the author is saying that LLMs are conscious or alive.

It would be kinda hilarious if the result of all this LLM research is that humans are basically just LLMs with more sensors and a long history.