Rafael Pinto

@rcpinto.bsky.social

CS / AI / ML PhD. 🇧🇷 ♾️ Working on meta-learning, continual learning, control, evo, RL, game AI. Hobbyist game dev. Local news and useless facts about my life in PT-BR. EN otherwise.

I think it is already a fair claim: For all X, where X is a skill / product / content / artifact / etc., the average AI-made X is better than the average human-made X.

My little prince has not much time left. Squamous cell carcinoma in the jaw, inoperable. I'm devastated and just wanted to go before or with him, but he needs me. I'll need to stay medicated for so long to keep going. I already feel "zombified" just to stay functional. So unfair.

The most beautiful cat in the world.

Things I found out after 13 years as a professor: - I love ~1/3 of my students and hate around 10% of them (mainly due to dishonesty); - I don't like to advise; - I like to do my own research, not to delegate. Anyway, I'm getting to the top of my career in 2 years, so, whatever.

Google Chrome fixed 1072 security bugs in its last two milestones exceeding the total fixed in the last 23 milestones combined. Their agentic workflow includes • agents for triaging & reproducing bugs • fixing agents that propose fixes • critic agents that evaluate fixes • agents that write tests

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I used to write code because I love creating things and making things happen. Code was the obstacle I had to overcome to bring them to life. Not anymore :). Also, you need to understand that people are different and that your way of thinking is just one among many.

LaurieWired@lauriewired.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m convinced that a large % of programmers don’t actually like computers. As a side effect, are also perfectly happy to throw away their reasoning to a model as soon as they can. I don’t get it, at ALL.