NAT demonstrably does not work fine. We have piles of ugly hacks (STUN, etc) that exist only because NAT does. If you really want to keep NAT then nothing stops you from running it on IPv6, but the rest of us shouldn't suffer because of your network design goals.
That is completely false in my experience. I have never once seen an LLM produce code that would be acceptable. It certainly is worse than what a human can do.
Have you seen the kind of code an average developer writes?
I agree that LLMs produce code that is less good than what a good developer could write, but most developers are not good developers, and even the good developer gets tired and must sleep eventually.
Arguments against LLMs are like the old arguments against high level languages like C. People argued that the compiler wrote trash code, that humans could do better, that the costs weren't worth it. None of that mattered and it's the same story here.
I don't know what model you're using or how you're prompting it, but for me some 60-80% of the time the results require only a little bit of steering to be 'acceptable' (like at least what I would expect from a junior engineer and I'll approve the PR even though it's not quite how I would do it), some 30% of the time the results are pretty much what I would do, and some 10% of the time the results are better than what I would do ("huh, good idea, okay let's do it that way").
They're not perfect by any stretch but if they're being likened to slot machines for code, I'll take those odds almost every day.
I beg to differ. I don't know what your bubble is, but I've seen code by various programming champions that just sucks. Exceptions not handled, poor OOP understanding, etc. These were people awarded for their contributions to software and so on. Humans can write quality code but I believe this is far from a common thing.
> No one has ever made a purchasing decision based on how good your code is. The general public does not care about anything other than the capabilities and limitations of your product.
The capabilities and limitations of your product are defined in part by how good the code is. If you write a buggy mess (whether you write it yourself or vibe code it), people aren't going to tolerate that unless your software has no competitors doing better. People very much do care about the results that good code provides, even if they don't care about the code as an end in itself.
I think this is exactly the point though (maybe more of the link than of this comment) - a sufficiently good product by all external quality metrics is fine even if the code is written on one line in a giant file or some other monstrosity. As long as one black box behaves the same way as another in all dimensions, they are competitive. You can argue that internal details often point to an external deficiency, but if they don’t, then there is no competitive pressure.
What are you defining as free versus frontier, and for what purpose? For coding there is a big difference between Opus and GPT 5.3/4 versus Sonnet and other models such as open weight ones.
No pretending here. I don't ever ask an LLM for a summary of something which I then send to people, because I have more respect for my co-workers than that. Nor do I want their (almost certainly inaccurate) LLM summary. It's the 2020s equivalent of "let me Google that for you": I can ask the bag of words to weigh in myself; if I'm asking a person it's because I want that person's thoughts.
I have never once bought a product because of an ad, unless the ad was telling me about something I didn't know existed. Perhaps others are weak-minded enough to do so, but not everyone is.
How do you know? The point of most ads isn't just to get you to make an immediate purchase but to make that brand part of your active memory so you will be more predisposed to choose it when you see it available. There are some ads that don't even mention any specific product at all.
That's only relevant if you would lose out on your income from work, which most people won't as they are paid salary. So yes, for people paid hourly it's legitimate to want out of jury duty, but that's also not the typical situation. Most people just don't feel like doing it.
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