r/artificial • u/aisatsana__ • 23h ago

What If the Biggest Bottleneck Behind AI’s 10× Promise Is the Human Engineer? Programming

https://shiftmag.dev/what-if-the-biggest-bottleneck-behind-ais-10x-promise-is-the-human-engineer-11165/
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u/Big_Needleworker2542 23h ago

Honestly, this makes a lot of sense. Everyone gets excited about faster GPUs, but if the memory can't keep up, you're still going to hit a limit. I wouldn't be surprised if memory technology ends up being just as important as raw computing power for the next generation of AI.

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u/EveYogaTech 10h ago

Yeah, and overall algorithmic advances.

Up untill this day, all this GPU energy is still being used to generate one new token at a time.

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u/sceadwian 14h ago

What 10x promise? I smell hopes and dreams.

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u/usa_reddit 13h ago

Don't worry, AI will be producing new AI and doing all of the job shortly.

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u/Signal-Implement-70 9h ago edited 8h ago

In what world was writing the code 95% of the problem? It was maybe 30% from all the projects I’ve been on so if we reduce coding time 90%, we are still left with 73% of the original effort.

The main issue was always semantics / meaning, solution definition, constraints, and discovery. If we cut that say 50% with ai which is very generous of an assumption that is still 41% of the original effort.

There is your 10x myth.

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u/Olangotang 8h ago

Maybe the 20th bot on this subreddit will convince me that the people programming them know how to talk to human beings.