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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
The mega corporations need to be broken up.
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
What makes you think that offloading expertise and making fungible whatever human operators remain necessary has no economic incentives?
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
If that's how you feel, you'd better get started -- we've already got AI writing most of the posts on this site, handling frontier maths, writing most of the commercial code at most startups, and its capabilities are growing
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
Who knows. I hope we figure out how to align the AI so that there's a sustainable economy for the majority of humanity, but I'm not in a position to influence that. I can just do my best to make myself less likely to be crushed.
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
Yes, I think we will continue to have hobbyist learners as we advance AI, but it's going to be a niche, and not a commercially viable one.
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
People will say that until it doesn't. We're currently in the largest research investment in history for this, and have made a crazy amount of progress since even five years ago. I'm not cocky enough to bet against it. Especi
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
Of course. But they're going to be machines. I don't think there's magic that makes the human brain impossible to automate. And engineering is going to lead to faster improvements than evolution could.
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
I don't think there's any chance people will be employed to sell the output of their brains in 20 years, outside of "athletes", or whatever we end up calling people who think for sport. We mostly succeeded at doing this
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
Maybe it should be one. Until it is, I'm all for giving the powerful the same consideration they give me.
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
How many people here are still reading code?
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
That's just a programming language, but worse. The vision is that AI owns the process end to end, from autonomous user interviews through spec generation all the way to implementation. We shouldn't need to tell AI what to do for a
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
> I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what software would look like if we made keeping software understandable to humans a first-class design goal in the age of AI. Why? Humans can't keep up. We can't keep up with writing t
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
Why are Americans so focused on helping other companies get ahead, rather than trying to brain drain their best and brightest?
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
yeah, I bet we're going to have Linux built without humans in the loop within a decade. Progress is going to be so fast.
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
Yes, that's why we're on the border: AI is doing its thing without us, but we're not yet confident enough to let the AI do its thing without checking. You may notice that humans only checked the work and explained. You may al
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
Why wouldn't you offload your thinking to AI?! That's the entire point of having it!
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
I think the need for expertise is also going away. For example, when Claude made progress on the Riemann conjecture, > Jarred's input was mostly limited to sending Claude messages of encouragement (mostly variants of “keep going” o
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
This makes no sense. The skills needed for AI coding are the same skills needed to hire Gary Kasparov to play chess. Tell them where the game is and stand back as they play.
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
Sure it does. It's as already better at spotting bugs than human programmers. The entire reason to use it is because it's trained on huge amounts of expertise.
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
He's not writing code in the kernel these days, and I don't think AI will get him coding again. Maybe Ted Ts'o will be doing the vibing. But AI is already better than most people at coding, so obviously Linux is going to end
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
What do you call people who vibe code? When he says that he sees a 10x improvement in productivity with AI code gen, what makes you think he's going to put the tool down? Do you think he's stupid or something? He'll keep ramp
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
He calls himself a vibe coder. I gave you the link. Who am I to call him a liar? And why do you act like it's an insult? For most problems, reading and writing code by hand is dead. For the remainder, it will be soon.
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
Chasing dockerized enterprise customers.
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
Nobody wants to fund it. But, at this point, AI makes code cheap enough that I would just fork the open source software and maintain it, instead of paying for a third party. Heck, even with saas, I may clone internally.
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
Torvalds is mostly merging code in the kernel, not writing modules. He claims he's a manager now: https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-summit-linus-torva... But he's very pro-ai, though, and is vibe clos
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
This seems nice. FreeBSD always seemed nicer than Linux, though now that Linux is being developed by LLMs and Torvalds is vibe-coding, I wonder if they'll be able to keep up.
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
How do you know? I think LLMs are more than advanced enough to come up with this text. In fact, I think they've got so much more management in their training set than a senior engineer that I expect they're going to be a better so
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
I suppose, thought I don't imagine it's going to be so necessary to learn things. Maybe education will be about being impressive in person? Taste also feels easy enough to automate. I'm not sure why anyone thinks it's ha
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
Why do you need to understand the code? Ask the LLM, it'll already do a better job than humans can.
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by a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
Yeah, exactly -- when we automated muscles in the industrial revolution, it was fine. Today, we're automating thinking. And, while there are people that still lift weights for fun, it's not needed professionally any more. I think

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