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Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization

8 points by gmays - 1 comments
perching_aix [3 hidden]5 mins ago
> The choice of objective function is key (...) A phenomenon recently captured by Mitchell Hashimoto in this X thread: https://xcancel.com/mitchellh/status/2060088112257372610

That is a very generous interpretation of that absolute stinker of a tweet, to the point that it's basically a mischaracterization.

Hashimoto there was entirely too busy tooting his own horn and parroting his latest favorite phrase (AI psychosis), rather than making any actually coherent point.

He pitches that people should "just be better programmers" en masse all of a sudden, instead of letting LLMs optimizing their code. Not unlike the beyond delusional parallel reality that people shitting on GLP-1 inhibitors are living in. And he explicitly prefers this fantasy over the very reality that he directly observed, refusing to grapple with the fact that deep expertise is rare and forever will be.

It's safe to conclude that the psychosis he's talking about is squarely within the boundaries of his head. Further evidence in the way of this is him auto-fellatiously tweeting that he reviews the code he generates (wow, what a hero!), and him performing prompt injection attacks against everyone cloning his repositories, taking great pride in this along the way.

Never aspired to be an open source maintainer, but if I ever mistakenly will, I sure hope I will recall this trashfire of an unraveling for sure.