AI still doesn't work well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming
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al_borland
bigstrat2003
Nobody with any sense believes any of the hype. It's the boy who cried wolf effect: after years of improvement it still sucks and can't get work done, so why on earth would I trust in the future when the AI bros claim "no this time it really is good"?
conception
This is a hilarious article.
“It passed all the unit tests, the shape of the code looks right," he said. It's 3.7x more lines of code that performs 2,000 times worse than the actual SQLite. Two thousand times worse for a database is a non-viable product. It's a dumpster fire. Throw it away. All that money you spent on it is worthless.”
“This magic that literally didn’t exist two years ago in more than a toy state is moving at such a rapid rate that it couldn’t even reproduce sqlite three months ago and only got better enough in those weeks to produce a bad version of sqlite! Clearly useless! It has no value, no one is using it to do any work and won’t get better over the next three months or three years!”
An amazing take.
Pamar
Well... the actual problem is, imho, that it looks like the LLMs seem to have reached (or are close to reaching) a plateau. You might be right about the "three months ago it could not produce a working implementation of a DBMS... but what if in 3 months (or 3 years) it stays stuck at the 20K slower threshold?
yladiz
You’re shifting the goalposts. The initial point was that the Rust regeneration of SQLite was wasted money, because it’s unviable due to its slow speed. You’re trying to shift it to be about how it may get better over time. Do you have something that is more specifically refuting the initial quote that doesn’t involve anything about potential improvement?
fzeroracer
Where are my flying cars?
hyperhello
Why do I want to reproduce sqlite? It’s a library. The point of it is to be already written.
justinclift
Maybe a native rust version of it has value for some people? :)
Even if it did work well, with such a rough start and years of false promises, who is really going to trust it? Everyone who does seems to be riding the hype wave.