Posted on 05/03/2025 8:27:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Well, wherever theres a complicated issue, there’s a simple solution: CONgress should just pass a LAW.
But first, it’ll take the left parading, rioting, protesting how “Coding is a HUMAN Right” and have the unionized coders go on strike, demonstrate how “free” “code-care” is fundamental to life as we know it and push for legislation along the lines of Obama-care guarantees “if you like your coder you can keep your coder” and “every household will see a drop of $2,000 a year in coding costs under our plan.”
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Your comment suggests that many lawyers are using AI to write briefs filled with imaginary case law.
That’s not accurate.
Only a handful of documented cases have involved lawyers submitting briefs with fake citations—most notably involving ChatGPT, which isn’t designed for legal research.
In contrast, there are specialized AI platforms like CoCounsel and Lexis+ AI that are trained on real case law and built specifically for legal professionals. These tools can review evidence, perform comprehensive legal research, summarize depositions, and help draft accurate, court-ready documents. They’re revolutionizing the practice of law—not undermining it.
Who wrote the code that writes the code?
>AI won’t get a bite at the apple because it’s all classified systems.
That may be inaccurate. One can (does) set up genAI instances isolated from the public so as not to leak proprietary code or sensitive data.
Not saying you want to, but you could have an Nth career as a prompt engineer training one of these focused genAIs some portion of your experience. Probably more fun than teaching an H1B.
AI is like a small child learning to walk.
It is way too early to tell whether it will be able to be an Olympic sprinter or not.
Rooster—good comments but I think you know where this is going to lead.
At some point we will need a lot less lawyers—and get higher quality work then we get from most lawyers.
Ultimately AI is going to get rid of the 99% of the work that is drudgery and routine and done by “average” lawyers.
The top one percent of lawyers—true subject matter experts—will become even more important than ever.
Back in the 1990s we used a “code writer” to try to reduce the time for completing new applications.
It made a standard design on every application. It did just so-so OK for a starting overall code/design, but the more complex that was the application the less well that standard worked. Our programmers almost always revised the code, and maybe spent as much time on that as “saved” by the code-writer’s code. We abandoned the effort after awhile.
I think there are certain good use cases of AI...but the level of hype for it is off the charts. this feels like a mini-dotcom bubble.
AI is something written by a human. What is their bias? Time will tell.
I think he is lying.
He is covering for the fact that several critical issues arose in the past few months from their using India as a programming source. Programmers in the US fixed the critical issues, myself included. I do not work for Microsoft, but one of their critical infrastructure products affected me so I jumped in.
There are internally hosted AI platforms that have been allowed access to some classified code. The customer would have to fund it. The money isn’t there. It wasn’t in the original proposal or subsequent contract. Some ID/IQ arrangements might be able to do it.
Can confirm, except for the most trivial of completed-many-times tasks; but sometimes, it still hallucinates at that.
Also, Visual Studio Code with Copilot will hallucinate additional blocks of code after autocomplete, if you’re not careful.
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I worked for Pacific Telephone/PacBell from 1980 through 1991. One of the perks was UNIX systems with full source code. A magnificent way to learn by example. I was already an avid C programmer. I also had early access to the C++ work being done by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1983. I did most of my programming in C++ from 1984 through 1991. Having full source provided great insight to how C++ was morphed into C, then compiled by the old CFRONT pre-processor. The library code for bsort, tsort and qsort were readily available to see exactly how they were implemented. I had to dig into Knuth's book a couple times when the sort/merge operations were sourced from data files that were 30 MB in size. A challenge on 1980s vintage hardware.
One of the real insightful things that occurred while I was at PacBell was the research for the book "Peopleware" by Larry Constantine. I was one of many people at the company included in the studies behind the book.
Another of my co-workers was Scott Adams. His cartoons were legendary and eventually he had to decide between working at PacBell and his literary works. He chose the latter. Some of his cartoons lampooned management inside PacBell. Employees easily figured out who was the target. I suspect that is why he was gently nudged out of the company.
At PacBell, we had a problem with the mainframe coming down daily around 5 PM. I did dumps of the damage common bank in the UNISYS environment. From that, I found the exact terminal that triggered the problem. We sent two people to guard the terminal. Sure enough, around 5 PM a young lady steps up to the terminal and enters a transaction. She was instructed not to transmit it. We captured the screen contents and shipped them off to Bellcore. The next day, we were informed that a COBOL library had a defect triggered by that input the corrupted a common bank library. The library was corrected and a patch sent to our Sperry system support staff. After correction, the transaction ran without a problem. Timeframe was Fall 1983.
The capability of AI doubles every four months. Singularity is not a question of if, but when.
Great discussion on this topic:
His basic argument—even if AI’s growth is linear (due to government regulation and/or social resistance of various kinds) and not exponential it will end the same way—that just changes the timeline.
There will be no “singularity”.
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