I loved Stratego as a kid but couldn’t find time to play as an adult. I stumbled across a mini version recently, which is 10v10 and goes much faster while still giving the overall feel of the game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/197108/stratego-quick-ba...

How did you determine which answers were wrong or half-truths?

By looking at the code?

> And I asked LLM to show me the code for each answer, on all 5 engines.

They same way I would have done without AI, but it sped up finding the relevant parts to a velocity that made it viable in my limited time.

I think the problem is determining who is contributing, intention, and those other nuances take a human’s time and effort. And at some point the number of contributions becomes too much to sort through.

I think building enough barriers, processes, and mechanisms might work. I don't think it needs to be human effort.

If it's not human effort, it costs tokens, lots of tokens, that need to be paid for by somebody.

The LLM providers will be laughing all the way to the bank because they get paid once by the people who are causing the problem and paid again by the person putting up the "barriers, processes, and mechanisms" to control the problem. Even better for them, the more the two sides escalate, the more they get paid.

So open source development should be more like job-hunting and hiring, where humans feed AI-generated resumes into AI resume filters which supposedly choose reasonable candidates to be considered by other humans? That sounds... not good.

Makes me wonder if at some point we’ll have bots that have forked every open source project, and every agent writing code will prioritize those forks over official ones, including showing up first in things like search results.

I genuinely believe that all open source projects with restrictive or commercially-unviable licenses will be cloned by LLM translation in the next few years. Since the courts are finding that its OK for GenAI to interpret copyrighted works of art and fiction in their outputs, surely that means the end of legal protection for source code as well.

"Rewrite of this project in rust via HelperBot" also means you get a "clean room" version since no human mind was influenced in its creation.

I give it 4 weeks

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“But what if people used notepad without our permission?!” -dev/boss somewhere

"But I bought it!" - naïve customer somewhere

I was so excited bringing that box/album cover home from the store. I read the manual through just imagining the games I’d make. When I got home, I put the disk in, and… learned what “minimum system requirements” were, as it wouldn’t run on my PCjr.

That’s a great point, and I’ll respond to that right after a word from this post’s sponsor: SpamCo.

I spent a summer building a car in a garage with baseball on the radio. That was the most I’ve enjoyed the game by far.

The most fun I’ve had with regards to baseball is either getting tanked watching the local team in clllege on cheap beer and a short walk to the stadium, or a team-management game for Wii where the main focus was building your team and playing the whole 200+ game season. There was still a game of sorts for the actual play, but it was by no means the focus in terms of presentation nor mechanics.

My grandmother (b. 1906)—a very intelligent lady (held her J.D.)—always had MLB game the broadcast tuned in anytime I was visiting her. The tempo and information needs of the game makes it perfect for delivery by radio.

Sounds like heaven.

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How fitting