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My 8 year old asks you to look at from a different angle and evaluate what it can actually do right now.

I would add, just because someone made a prognostication decades ago does not invalidate the same prognostication now.

Have you tried it?




Those aren't decades-old "prognostications". They are things that happened.

Could it be different this time? Maybe! But if you want to say that it will, then you have to make the argument. Or maybe you can get ChatGPT to do it for you?


Have you tried coding with ChatGPT? It works now. You can use it now to architect a system AND produce working code.


Oh? Then it should be easy for you to point me to an example of working system of real-world complexity built this way, yes?

I'm especially interested to see how the system gets improved over time as users try it out, lessons are learned, needs change, etc, etc.


Please stop.


Stop asking you for you to back up your questionable claims? Now that you've stopped making them, sure, I'm glad to.


I have not, but others have detailed examples where it produces rubbish. Certainly not the kind of risk to take with safety critical systems like what an astronaut may rely on.


Exactly. Here's an excellent instance of it being confidently and ridiculously wrong: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnarchyChess/comments/10ydnbb/i_pla...

If it can't handle the relatively simple rules of chess, it sure can't handle coding.




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