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merlincorey

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2011-05-16

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  • The CDC recommends against heating milk in a microwave[0] whether it's human milk or formula meant for a baby due to the creation of "hot spots" and also the potential destruction of nutrients.

    [0] https://www.cdc.gov/infant-toddler-nutrition/formula-feeding...

  • "Flappy Bengt"[0] is broken at least on my browser it's not playable as a human (nor LLM) due to requiring too large of an APM for anything but TASbot or a special purpose mechanical robot to play.

    [0] https://bengt-andon.github.io/bengt-website/game.html

  • Which ones are you claiming have already been achieved?

    My understanding of the current scorecard is that he's still technically correct, though I agree with you there is velocity heading towards some of these things being proven wrong by 2029.

    For example, in the recent thread about LLMs and solving an Erdos problem I remember reading in the comments that it was confirmed there were multiple LLMs involved as well as an expert mathematician who was deciding what context to shuttle between them and helping formulate things.

    Similarly, I've not yet heard of any non-expert Software Engineers creating 10,000+ lines of non-glue code that is bug-free. Even expert Engineers at Cloud Flare failed to create a bug-free OAuth library with Claude at the helm because some things are just extremely difficult to create without bugs even with experts in the loop.

  • "Code is a liability. What the code does for you is an asset." as quoted from https://wiki.c2.com/?SoftwareAsLiability with Last edit December 17, 2013.

    This discussion and distinction used to be well known, but I'm happy to help some people become "one of today's lucky 10,000" as quoted from https://xkcd.com/1053/ because it is indeed much more interesting than the alternative approach.

  • > Meanwhile, my cofounder is rewriting code we spent millions of salary on in the past by himself in a few weeks.

    Code is not an asset it's a liability, and code that no one has reviewed is even more of a liability.

    However, in the end, execution is all that matters so if you and your cofounder are able to execute successfully with mountains of generated code then it doesn't matter what assets and liabilities you hold in the short term.

    The long term is a lot harder to predict in any case.

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