Continuing with notes from the BugBash talks. Yes, all of this goodness, including Will Wilson's keynote was before lunch the first day.Where all the ladders startPeter Alvaro, Associate Professor of Computer Science @ UC Santa CruzIn this talk, Peter reflects back on his 20 years of distributing...
This paper from METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research) introduces a new metric for tracking AI progress: the "50%-task-completion time horizon". This denotes the length of software engineering task (measured by how long a skilled human developer takes to complete it) that the AI model can...
In the age of LLMs, syntax is no longer the bottleneck for writing, reading, or learning TLA+. People are even getting value by generating TLA+ models and counterexamples directly from Google Docs descriptions of the algorithms. The accidental complexity of TLA+ (its syntax and tooling) is going...