If the Ai came back to me with a 1600x improvement (still in pgrust readme), I would be highly suspicious of the Ai and the code it wrote

The hype factory must grow, I suppose, though I would prefer if the model makers would stop with this "complete the task by any and every means possible" and replace it with "I don't know, I should ask or do more learning"

At least they have added a test which looks to make sure the Ai doesn't do it again... if you need this kind of test, something is wrong

https://github.com/malisper/pgrust/blob/38634b408dea373f3944...

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shawabawa3 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've noticed it with a lot of random stuff i've been trying

I'll tell claude, "write an implementation of an AAC decoder that is 50% faster than ffmpeg"

and it will do it! Amazing!

Then i tell it "hmm ffmpeg has been really well optimised, are you sure?" and it says "oh, i was running our code directly but running ffmpeg executables with loads of overhead, ffmpeg is actually 50% faster"

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ddorian43 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You can't compare optimizations done on audio encoding/decoding (often hand written assembly) to something like PostgreSQL which has many moving/inefficient parts.

The optimizations on PostgreSQL are real if done correctly, it's just a very big project.

	▲	shawabawa3 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My point was that while Claude _is_ legitimately very good at optimising. It will also write its own benchmarks to test its optimisations which are frequently stacked in its favour. You have to be very careful that reported speedups are actually real

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verdverm 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Transformers will def get us to AGI /s

My new definition for The Singularity is not about Ai intelligence, it is about humans handing over critical thinking regardless of Ai capabilities

Ai companions are where I put the highest p(doom)

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thatsabadlook 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If I saw that test in a PR I would not only reject the PR and ask a lot of questions but someone would likely take a forced vacation to deslop their brain.

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verdverm 6 hours ago | parent [-]

that requires someone (1) using PRs (2) looking at the PR

the project has 3 mega commits of claude slop

https://github.com/malisper/pgrust/commits/main/

	▲	malisper an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Those are squash commits of many pieces of smaller work