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“I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program…” (geohot.github.io)

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I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harder and harder to detect. Which is exactly what you’d expect from an increasingly accurate statistical model.

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Um... but it is just a sophisticated statistical model... that's literally what the math underpinning machine learning models is... and all it can do is make associations based on correlations within the field of the training data. That's what it does.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

This is like saying "but it is just a sophisticated network of neurons. All it can do is transform input signals into output signals. That's what it does."

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 points 5 minutes ago

Not really.

A machine learning model is a computer program. It is fundamentally a math equation, which we understand completely.

A living brain is not fundamentally a math equation, and is not purely a statistical model, at least not in any empirically demonstrable way. We don't understand completely how it works, but we do know that it's more complex than what you're trying to imply.

The comparison is not valid. Machine learning models are not an equivalent to a biological brain.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Um… but it is just a sophisticated statistical model…

The mistake has been thinking this implies LLMs can never do X task, and using it as a catch-all argument for any value of X, but it isn't a good argument because it has been wrong for most of those.