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Actually, I think the lesson from this article is that a lot of these little hacks we’re doing around context compaction, AGENTS.md, system guides, and other harnessy ways of saving tokens are going to go away fairly quickly, just as all the tricks of the telegraph era went away once communication got cheap enough that it was easier to just speak in plain language.

No, I am engaging with the point: centering human achievement over something potentially greater is lowering the rim. There is nothing special about humans.

Again, the assumption that forms the crux of these objections of all of these is that we're going to hit some plateau where we are going to need humans to come back in, reskill, retake over, etc. I don't think most people are prepared for the fact that that's just a midwit problem and the AI will just keep getting better and won't need humans in the loop.

It's not okay to ask the world to slow down so you may catch up. It's not okay to ask for the rim to be lowered so you can dunk. Instead, ask how you can get faster, how you can get stronger, and actually get the ability to dunk.

I think this trend will only accelerate with AI until all of us live on our own little islands. I think it'll mostly be good.

https://www.hackyexperiments.com/blog/machines-of-loving-emb...

Only if you have a zero-sum game mindset. I suppose it does make sense that AI-native intelligences are just smarter than hybrid AI-human entities (biologically enhanced or uploads) but that doesn't mean there needs to be conflict between the two. The universe is huge. :)

I've struggled with this question as well, and this is why I reject the premise of the historical pattern of technology enabling us to "move up" to something else.

At the same time, I agree with the original comment as well. I don't think this necessarily leads to some doomsday scenario. Whatever happens it'll likely be better for us and imo we will merge with the AIs at some point, so it won't be a question of us vs them.

If you're focused on the price drop rather than the increased capabilities of 5.5 you're ngmi

This is one of those predictions that sound very wise and do well on Hacker News, but will turn out to be completely wrong. For the simple reason that we’re basing all our assumptions on decades of learned behavior predicated on coding being expensive. Writing code has historically been expensive and, by extension, so is maintaining it.

But when you can literally generate a whole codebase in a few hours, a lot of these assumptions don’t hold up. That doesn’t mean you don’t need sound logic and maintainability. But a lot of the small things you think would go wrong because of a bloated codebase stop being meaningful objections when you can keep generating, testing, and reworking it until those issues are resolved.

A lot of what we consider good engineering judgment is shaped by the constraints we’ve always worked under. I don’t think people appreciate how much of that changes when those constraints go away. The "slop" problem is ultimately a verification and testability problem.

Slightly different idea, but I think having a very lightweight LLM doing debounced checks to auto correct grammar and reformat (even rephrase) text would be really cool.

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I wonder if there is a principle here we can apply to neural nets like dividing up the layers for different tasks (no not MoE but something more fundamental).

So this is basically ngrok?

no you still probably use layout algos but most variation on top of them in css is human preference v capability (Extra HTML Elements v Pseudo Elements etc).

I think this assumes AI needs the same kinds of “tricks” humans do.

Flexbox, CSS Grid, etc. are mostly abstractions that make low-level DOM/layout control tractable for humans. But from first principles, an agent doesn’t really care whether the interface is elegant. If it can reliably manipulate the underlying system directly and verify the rendered output, it can just write whatever low-level code gets the pixels where they need to go.

So I don’t really buy that there’s some big missing abstraction layer left to invent for AI here. Once the agent can control and verify the underlying output, better human-facing wrappers mostly stop mattering.

Not talking about design trends, just the mechanics of producing the UI.

Tbh I can't see how any site about tooling doesn't go the way of Stack Overflow. I used to follow the latest framework and CSS articles avidly. With agents it's a moot point.

It's sad. But rather than fight it, we should be thinking about what communities we form next, in a world where knowing flexbox tricks isn't a flex.

this assumes our whole universe and what we can do in it is a finite go board. maybe it is. but we are no where close to exploring even a fraction of it. lots of things need to happen before any limit is reached. the cavemen would also probably think we saturated tools once they saw bows and arrows.

how much would you pay for a prompt that could cure cancer? if you're a pharma company you would pay millions to get there days faster than your competitor. as intelligence rises the marginal value it can deliver rises with it.

That can all be true but the frontier models will still have a huge market. You're thinking of all tasks as a fixed pie. The top 1% of intelligence opens up a whole new pie, stuff nobody does today because it's too expensive: daily cancer scans instead of one every few years, asteroid mining missions that need ten thousand PhD-hours of planning, custom drugs designed for your specific tumor, a personal lawyer and doctor for every person on earth, auditing every line of code in every bank and hospital continuously and so on.

Cost will keep dropping, but the frontier will keep getting pushed. The whole "give me today's model 10x cheaper and I'm good" line is a fallacy. It isn't true now and it never will be for the top 1% of tasks, which will create the most economic gains.

This is obvious in hindsight. I expect most companies that move fast and care about performance to abandon React Native. Code is cheap now, and the tradeoff of having a single codebase and only hiring React devs basically isn't there anymore.

No that's not how the world works. Most of climate change happens not because some decrepit old man lives on his yacht but poor people in third world countries get their first air conditioners. As they should.

The only way is through. Most of are not going to be living the suffocating life you think we should. We will grow, innovate and accelerate out of this.

Instead of trying to block why not monetize? So the proof of work can be directed at something you can be paid for (bitcoin mining)?

Yes, and robot pets aren’t going to look like clankers. They’ll be warm and furry and imitate the sounds and movements of real pets. I think people still imagine robots as some cold metallic insert-Stephen-Hawking-voice thing, and it’s pretty clear even with today’s tech that’s just not what they’re going to be.

I know the history. We bred them to be our pets and normalized this relationship. Your pet might even love his life. But we can do the same with robot AIs, and it will be a better relationship. Your robot can talk to you. It can call 911 if you’re in trouble instead of just barking.

yup!

I detest the vegan movement. I'm not an animal lover. Pets are unsanitary nuisances. Robots are better. We don't need to commit a genocide against domestic pets for the transition. Just breed less.

I think in the future we'll have robot pets and look back in horror at how we enslaved animals out of their natural habitats and normalized (even glorified) it.

This isn't great but a negative side effect of an otherwise positive change. I know a lot of comments will try to make this into a gotcha but its really not. Decreased friction leads to misuse. Just like before we'll figure out ways (reputation, light filter pass) to deal with it.