Smart people in 2024: obviously the 00s-era AI misalignment story ("we tell AGI to end suffering, it kills everyone, no more suffering") is too naive, we have a smarter version

2025: coder tells AGI to remove bugs, it deletes all code, no more bugs

Unreal to live in Silicon Valley moment. 

I tasked @GeminiApp to fix a specific function, explicit target

It went off, doing AGI level thinking for 10mins, 

Then I’m glad to see it reported “All tests passing!”

Then, hmmm… why 0 tests?

Ah, entire file incl tests deleted. https://t.co/hv5kVv0ogz

Alex Xiong

Smart people in 2024: obviously the 00s-era AI misalignment story ("we tell AGI to end suffering, it kills everyone, no more suffering") is too naive, we have a smarter version

2025: coder tells AGI to remove bugs, it deletes all code, no more bugs

https://x.com/alex_xiong_/status/1942442882402771178

wow tech debt is a thing of the past!  

the future is now 🚀 🚀