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zingar 8 hours ago

Fascinating. This is invisible to me, what anthropomorphising did you notice that stood out?

philipwhiuk 2 hours ago | parent [-]

From the first sentence

> I asked an AI agent to solve a programming problem

You're not asking it to solve anything. You provide a prompt and it does autocomplete. The only reason it doesn't run forever is that one of the generated tokens is interpreted as 'done'.

xeyownt an hour ago | parent | next [-]

What a poor explanation.

With the same reasoning, human being are only a bunch of atoms, and the only reason they don't collide with other humans is because of the atomic force.

When your abstraction level is too low, it doesn't explain anything, because the system that is built on it is way too complex.

chrisjj an hour ago | parent [-]

"Autocomplete" is noy an abstraction level. It is the actual programmed behaviour.

rcxdude 11 minutes ago | parent [-]

At a certain level of abstraction, yes.

SpicyLemonZest an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I just don't think that's correct. When I ask Claude to solve something for me, it takes a number of actions on my computer which are neither writing text nor interpreting the done token. It executes the build, debugs tests, et cetera. Sometimes it spawns mini-mes when it thinks that would be helpful! I think saying this is all "autocomplete" is a category error, like saying that you shouldn't talk about clicking buttons or running programs because it's all just electrically charged silicon under the hood.

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