I feel like LLMs will help solve this problem they've created, TBH -- any human expert can tell in seconds when a repo has this problem, so it should be doable by a system that's tweaked over. The tricky part is writing a legal agreement that lets them apply vibe quotas!
This is what Anthropic is already doing with CC, and tbh GitHub and GitLab are probably doing the same. The cost is some hate from devs on Twitter and random small subreddits ofc, but I bet that's well worth it!
OTOH, it does kinda blow my mind how often I see people (on /r/vibecoding and elsewhere) paying for a $200/mo subscription to produce what amount to hobby projects and toy sites. I've been known to make some silly money decisions when I can afford it, but this feels different.
I guess it's a $2400 annual subscription to a service providing Meaning and Purpose? If you're around 40 and realizing that you'll never be rich or famous, this might actually affordable compared to the alternatives!
IDK, it's hard to criticize the community too much given how wildly, absurdly successful it is. If I arrived on Earth yesterday and you tried to tell me how much software is Free/free in an otherwise-capitalist economy, I wouldn't believe you!
I really really am not trying to start a political argument, but just as food for thought: this is exactly why I have faith in socialism (read: 'prosocial institutions and norms'). And whether socialism is eu- or dys-topian, it certainly cannot happen in the first place without a "social component"!
I mean, 'mentions Claude while asking it about AI consciousness at the end of long post about consciousness'**. Seems fair?
Apologies if I'm misreading 'incentive' and missing some jargon usage, ofc! Or if this just a lament that she's not a purist/gold star doomer? Cause I totally understand that.
Well said! I don't think either party is really at fault here, but if Anthropic wanted to contribute non-negligible amounts of code over time then it's an absolute dealbreaker.
Sucks for people who were invested in contributing to Bun and don't like working with AI tools to be sure, but I think the writing was on the wall for them pretty much immediately post-acquisition. You must admit, it's hard to predict that 100% of source lines will be written by AI if you're not walking the walk!
A) these aren’t “medical people”, they’re neuroscientists and psychologists. Comparing them to a nutritionist seems especially cruel!
B) “some people have been wrong before” is not a reason to think you know better than the authors of an upcoming Nature article based on a few layperson-targeted paragraphs summarizing the paper from a very high level.
> “some people have been wrong before” is not a reason to think you know better than the authors of an upcoming Nature article based on a few layperson-targeted paragraphs summarizing the paper from a very high level.
Nor is "this paper is going to appear in Nature" a reason not to wonder whether there might be something that the authors don't know. The whole point of science is that anyone can make an informed critique and self-evaluation of it, with no necessity of depending on a priesthood to interpret it. You can point out the flaws in giantg2's argument https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995899, but neither the venue of the paper, nor the fact that the argument is directed at laypeople in a forum frequented by laypeople, seems to me inherently to indicate such flaws.
> The whole point of science is that anyone can make an informed critique and self-evaluation of it, with no necessity of depending on a priesthood to interpret it.
That's a misinterpretation:
> anyone can
(Of course nothing stops them, but I don't think that's your point.)
> anyone can make an informed critique and self-evaluation of it, with no necessity of depending on a priesthood to interpret it.
Science is specifically not the wisdom of the crowds - that is pre-scientific. It is the wisdom of emprical facts, which are usually so complex and voluminous that it takes great expertise to understand and interpret them. Science is not democratic - your opinion is worthless and does not deserve consideration unless you can demonstrate otherwise.
You don't have to be in the priesthood, but it's tough to have the expertise otherwise, and then tough to stay outside the priesthood.
"'In matters of science,' Galileo wrote, 'the authority of thousands is not worth the humble reasoning of one single person.'" ("In questioni di scienza L'autorità di
mille non vale l'umile ragionare di un singolo." The source was not able to verfy its provenance, however.)
Your reading of my comment seems perfectly charitable, but it also seems to find more in my comment than what I said.
> > anyone can make an informed critique and self-evaluation of it, with no necessity of depending on a priesthood to interpret it.
> Science is specifically not the wisdom of the crowds - that is pre-scientific. It is the wisdom of emprical facts, which are usually so complex and voluminous that it takes great expertise to understand and interpret them. Science is not democratic - your opinion is worthless and does not deserve consideration unless you can demonstrate otherwise.
I did not say that science is democratic, nor that the validity of a scientific fact is determined by the crowds, but rather that anyone can make an informed critique and self-evaluation. 'Can' is perhaps too strong a word; to do this is a skill that usually requires considerable background and training.
Here I think that one must distinguish between the sociology of science and the ideal of science. In the sociology of science, reputation matters, authority is often deferred to, and an amateur will have a tough time getting a serious hearing. That is the fact of imperfect human practice.
But the ideal of science is that everyone's idea does matter, or, if you like (though I find it pessimistic), that everyone's ideas don't matter. The ideas of the most untrained novice have exactly as much, or as little, scientific weight as those of the most expert, practiced, and credentialed scientist. This is distinct from the sociological weight of an idea: the scientific community is more likely to listen to the expert, practiced, and credentialed scientist than to the novice. But the quality of a scientific idea is intrinsic to the idea, not to who has it.
I generally agree, though I think calling it the "ideal of science" goes too far. It's more the ideal of democracy.
> imperfect human practice
Whether human social habits affect it or not (I agree they probably do), it would be impossible to spend time examining every amateur idea. And if you see the quality of many amateur ideas - even in a relatively sophisticated population like HN - the payoff gets worse.
Nature communications, not Nature. There is quite the large difference between them (and neither is neccessarily a sign of quality, but good ability to market well to an editor).
For the record I have published in Nature Communications (and not Nature) and therefore know a little bit about what it takes to publish papers there.
The point isn’t that they found subgroups, the point is the method they used to find them — namely, analyzing individual brain scans rather than averaging them out first.
Same sort of thing - how would you expect to find subgroups by assigning the aggregate to individuals. It would be bad design. It's like they're surprised that they used a good design.
Yup, to no one’s surprise (least of all the investigators), doing neuroscience by correlating cortex regions with cognitive activities is extremely clunky at best. Very robust finding confirming this tho, thanks for sharing!
Now that we’re finally moving to the next stage of neuroscience due inscrutable latent systems (aka LLMs), I can’t help but feel some nostalgia. It’s all fun and games until someone makes a lie detection helmet that actually works…
Nothing wrong at all with separating out Claude’s work with commits! In fact, it’s preferable IMO — it lets people browsing the history identify code that was primarily written by AI.
This is not just a hypothetical but a non-common workflow: I already wrote upstaged code change myself. I ask claude to review it, and if ok, commit and push.
At no point did claude author any of it, just a review. So a co-author statement is false.
Looks great, and I love the `zsh` support! Took a note to whip up a Sublime plugin for this when I get a chance. Congrats on shipping something, seriously.
Out of curiosity: how in the name of the good lord above did you end up with 1,163 commits on this repo in the span of 3 weeks, all by yourself? I was assuming Claude commits given the `./.claude/skills` dir, but doesn't Claude usually sign it's own commits as a collaborator?
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