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This too shall pass. Seriously. I've been through too many hype cycles to count. In a few years we will look back on this and see three things: * Both the do

This too shall pass. Seriously. I've been through too many hype cycles to count. In a few years we will look back on this and see three things: * Both the downsides and upsides were exaggerated * A lot of VCs lost money and many of the trillion dollar buildouts didn't happen * after the hype died down we figured out what AI was actually good for, and what it wasn't.

bsaul 8mo ago
i've been through a few hype cycles as well, but this one looks just as big as the invention of the internet, at the very very least (IMHO it's much much more than that). My way of coping with it is to just go with the flow and learn all the new technics there is to learn, until the machine replaces us all.
- lysace 8mo ago
  My mom (in her 80s) used to ask me "what do you think comes after the internet?". It seemed nonsensical, but here we are. From her perspective: 1. Radio 2. TV 3. Internet 4. ?
  - listic 8mo ago
    Interestingly, I (in my 20s back then) also asked the question in the early 2000's. I had a CS background.
mathgladiator 8mo ago
AI is getting really good at too many things, so this feels very different. I have a claude "skill/program/mega-prompt" for health: https://github.com/nexivibe/md/blob/main/DOCTOR.md https://github.com/nexivibe/md/blob/main/DOCTOR.md I gave it absolutely everything, and praise be to the machine I get the best debate and recommendations I've ever seen. I check what I know to be true, and it's there. I check the logic, and it is sound. I check the medication recommendations and they are legit. I bet in 2030, AI will be able to prescribe medicine.
- mwigdahl 8mo ago
  I did something very similar, but less focused on dialogue and more focused on deep analysis of medical research papers for a specific condition. Like you, I got really outstanding results.
  - mathgladiator 8mo ago
    Once you let Claude run debates that run for hours, the results lock in so well. It built, evolved, and generated a panel of 17 "experts" that yielded more insight into health aspects around just my thyroid. I got the absolute best representation of the entire discussion around different options I've seen in my entire life. It's AMAZING.
- judahmeek 8mo ago
  > AI is getting really good at too many things, so this feels very different. How are you going to follow that up with a single anecdotal example? Respectfully, shame on you. That said, summary (information compression) along with low-level inference does seem to be the tasks that A.I. is best at right now. Little surprise there. Information compression is the sole purpose of the attention transformer in the first place.
  - mathgladiator 8mo ago
    Sorry, but I'm too busy creatively exploring creative writing, engineering, medicine, therapy, fitness, bio-hacking, accounting, marketing, sales, ad copy, web site design, business strategy, and so much more with just Claude code. I'm maxing my weekly max x20, and this thing is good. It is better than me and every professional I've met in my entire life. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be better than 80% of the knowledge economy. It's there. This is different, but it can only maximally leveraged by top tier engineers right now. That will change in eight months. I gave you a super power prompt, and you want more? Respectfully, shame on you.
    - judahmeek 8mo ago

bsaul 8mo ago

i've been through a few hype cycles as well, but this one looks just as big as the invention of the internet, at the very very least (IMHO it's much much more than that). My way of coping with it is to just go with the flow and learn all the new technics there is to learn, until the machine replaces us all.

lysace 8mo ago
My mom (in her 80s) used to ask me "what do you think comes after the internet?". It seemed nonsensical, but here we are. From her perspective: 1. Radio 2. TV 3. Internet 4. ?
- listic 8mo ago
  Interestingly, I (in my 20s back then) also asked the question in the early 2000's. I had a CS background.

mathgladiator 8mo ago

AI is getting really good at too many things, so this feels very different. I have a claude "skill/program/mega-prompt" for health: https://github.com/nexivibe/md/blob/main/DOCTOR.md https://github.com/nexivibe/md/blob/main/DOCTOR.md I gave it absolutely everything, and praise be to the machine I get the best debate and recommendations I've ever seen. I check what I know to be true, and it's there. I check the logic, and it is sound. I check the medication recommendations and they are legit. I bet in 2030, AI will be able to prescribe medicine.

mwigdahl 8mo ago
I did something very similar, but less focused on dialogue and more focused on deep analysis of medical research papers for a specific condition. Like you, I got really outstanding results.
- mathgladiator 8mo ago
  Once you let Claude run debates that run for hours, the results lock in so well. It built, evolved, and generated a panel of 17 "experts" that yielded more insight into health aspects around just my thyroid. I got the absolute best representation of the entire discussion around different options I've seen in my entire life. It's AMAZING.
judahmeek 8mo ago
> AI is getting really good at too many things, so this feels very different. How are you going to follow that up with a single anecdotal example? Respectfully, shame on you. That said, summary (information compression) along with low-level inference does seem to be the tasks that A.I. is best at right now. Little surprise there. Information compression is the sole purpose of the attention transformer in the first place.
- mathgladiator 8mo ago
  Sorry, but I'm too busy creatively exploring creative writing, engineering, medicine, therapy, fitness, bio-hacking, accounting, marketing, sales, ad copy, web site design, business strategy, and so much more with just Claude code. I'm maxing my weekly max x20, and this thing is good. It is better than me and every professional I've met in my entire life. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be better than 80% of the knowledge economy. It's there. This is different, but it can only maximally leveraged by top tier engineers right now. That will change in eight months. I gave you a super power prompt, and you want more? Respectfully, shame on you.
  - judahmeek 8mo ago