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Cheating Is All You Need
There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don’t realize at all how big it is.
I’m guessing you prolly missed it in OpenAI’s 98-page GPT-4 technical report, but large models are apparently already prone to discovering that “power-seeking” is an effective strategy for increasing their own robustness. You’ve just graduated from Stevey’s LLM Mini-U, and you have all the necessary theoretical background to appreciate why I feel I am the luckiest damn person on Earth, and why I’m throwing a party, right here on page two thousand eight hundred and ninety six of this blog post. Sourcegraph’s engine powers gigantic enterprises with literally a hundred thousand git repositories, and/or multi-terabyte massive megarepos that make IDEs fall over and puke.
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