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The rise of the AI middleman - software to ensure your LLM-generated crap isn't an abomination before god (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 1 year ago by gerikson@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Pretty soon, paying for all the APIs you need to make sure your Midjourney images are palatable will be enough to pay a human artist!

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

speaking of which: sweep.dev

Sweep's Core Algorithm - Using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to clear your GitHub Backlog

At Sweep, our core issue-to-pull-request pipeline resolves around an RAG-based pipeline. This means we retrieve snippets from a corpora (your codebase) and feed it to an language model (GPT-4) to generate code.

a wondrous automaton crafting branch and PR for every badly-written and/or outdated entry in your n-many github repositories! with in-built violation-of-boundaries!

true perfection, this will go absolutely perfectly. I have no notes.

[edit: this should possibly even be its own thread]

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the fuck? Is that a parody? People are mocking dumb LLM ideas, right? Right?!

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I certainly am mocking this, but that thing appears to be a whole-ass startup.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean, my background in support is showing here... if an issue was submitted that was clear enough for someone to fix it, it would be fixed[1] (i.e. "there's a bug in file X, line Y, the comparison is strictly less than but should be less or equal"). By definition, the ones that are left are those that are unclear, nonsensical, off-topic or all too often all 3.

[1] modulo developer laziness

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s also “used to matter, but then things changed and we just never got to this because it’s 200+ things deep in the backlog” etc kind of situations

Anyway, I look forward to hearing about someone using this and something going catastrophically wrong

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

I can replace this product with a script that just closes them as "works as designed WONTFIX"